Question

Question
A laundry soap company decides it wants to shrink the size of its box to save on cost. The surface area of the original box is 112 cm2
. If it creates a new box using a scale factor of 34
, determine the surface area of the new box. Round to the nearest tenth if necessary.(1 point)
cm2

Answer 1

Surface area scales by the square of the linear scale factor. With scale factor 3/4, area factor = (3/4)^2 = 9/16.

New surface area = 112 × 9/16 = 63 cm².

Answer: 63 cm² (or 63.0 cm²).