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Answer: The volume of the grapefruit is approximately 8 times as great as the volume of the lime.
Step-by-step explanation:
You need to use the formula for calculate the volume of a sphere. This is:
Where "r" is the radius.
<u>Volume of the grapefruit</u>
You know that its diameter is 16 centimeters.
Since the radius is half the diameter, you get that its volume is:
<u> Volume of the lime</u>
According to the information given in the exercise, the diameter of the lime is 8 centimeters.
As it was explained above, the radius is half the diameter. Knowing that, you get that volume of the lime is the shown below:
In order to find approximately how many times as great is the volume of theat grapefruit as the volume of that lime, you need to divide the volumes calculated above. Then: