Question

Jake has 900 cm³ of material. He uses 14.5 cm³ to make a right triangular prism. He wants to make a second prism that is a dilation of the first prism with a scale factor of 4.
How much more material does Jake need in order to make the second prism?

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Jake needs an additional (13.5, 28, 42.5)
cm³ of material to make the second prism.

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  1. Jake needs an additional 42.5 cm³ of material to make the second prism.

    Amount of material available

    Since Jake has 900 cm³ of material and he uses 14.5 cm³ to make a right triangular prism. The amount of material available to make the second prism is V = 900 cm³ – 14.5 cm³
    = 885.5 cm³

    Scale factor

    Now, the second prism is gotten by ditaion of the first prism by a factor of 4.
    Since we have volume, (scale  factor)³ = volume of second prism/volue of first prism

    Volume of second prism

    So, volume of second prism, V’ = (scale factor)³ × volume of first prism = 4³ × 14.5 cm³ = 928 cm³

    Amount of material more needed

    So, the amount of material more needed to make the second prism is V”‘ = V’ – V = 928 cm³ – 885.5 cm³
    = 42.5 cm³
    So, Jake needs an additional 42.5 cm³ of material to make the second prism.
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