Question

There are 200 toothpicks in a regular-size box. If a jumbo-size box is made by tripling the length, width, and height of the regular box, how many toothpicks will the jumbo box hold?

Answer 1

Hi!

You're tripling three dimensions in this case; the length, the width, and the height. Since you're tripling all three of them, and not just one, you don't multiply the original by 3 just once, you multiply it by 3, three times, for all 3 dimensions.

You can use 3 ^ 3, or 3 * 3 * 3, to figure out how much you have to multiply the original by, since you're multiplying 3 by itself 3 times.

3 * 3 * 3 = 27

So you want to multiply the original value, in this case 200, by 27.

200 * 27 = 5,400 toothpicks

Hope this helped!