Choose the best answer to the following: When you scale up an object to 3 times its linear size, the surface area increases by (a) 3 and the volume by 9. (b) 3 and the volume by 27. (c) 9 and the volume by 27. (d) 4 and the volume by 8.

Choose the best answer to the following: When you scale up an object to 3 times its linear size, the surface area increases by (a) 3 and the volume by 9. (b) 3 and the volume by 27. (c) 9 and the volume by 27. (d) 4 and the volume by 8.

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When you scale up an object to 3 times its linear size, the surface area increases by

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(b) 3 and the volume by 27.

(d) 4 and the volume by 8.

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