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A container holds 4800 cubic inches of waste. The dimensions of the container are tripled. How many cubic feet

of waste does the new container hold?

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This is a 3-D container and the dimensional factor is F=3. The volume increases by a factor of 33 = 27.

The answer is 4608 x 27 / 123 = 72

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