As part of a new advertising campaign, a beverage company wants to increase the dimensions of their cans by a multiple of 1. 12.
If the cans are currently 12 cm tall, 6 cm in diameter, and have a volume of 339. 12 cm3, how much more will the new cans hold? Use 3. 14 for π and round your answer to the nearest hundredth. 476. 44 cm3 137. 32 cm3 815. 56 cm3 379. 81 cm3.
The volume of the larger similar container will be the cube of the scale factor times the volume of the original container. That is, the new container will have a volume that is 1.12³ = 1.404928 times the volume of the original.
The amount of increase will be 0.404928 times the original volume, or ...
