A rectangular prism has a volume of 60 cubic centimeters. If you triple the length of this rectangular prism, what will its new
volume be? A rectangular prism has a volume of 60 cubic centimeters. If you triple the length of this rectangular prism, what will its new volume be? 216,000 cm3
the volume of such an object is created by multiplying the 3 side length dimensions :
length × width × height.
if you triple one of them, then you bring that factor 3 one time into the volume multiplication, and the volume also triples .
in our case that is 60×3 = 180.
FYI
if you would triple fire example all 3 dimension lengths, you would bring that factor 3 into the volume multiplication 3 times (once for every dimension).
