Question

A cube has a side length of 5 cm. If this cube is enlarged by a scale factor of 2, What is the enlarged cubes side length. Please show your work.

Answer 1

Length of the enlarged cube is 10 cm.

Explanation:

We are given that,

Length of the cube = 5 cm.

The cube is enlarged by a scale factor of 2.

Since, enlargement increases the size of the figure.

So, the length of the cube will increase by a factor of 2.

That is,

Length of the enlarged cube = 5 × 2 = 10 cm

Hence, the length of the enlarged cube is 10 cm.