A carpenter constructed a rectangular sandbox with a capacity of 10 cubic feet. If the carpenter were to make a similar sandbox twice as long, twice as wide, and twice as high as the first sandbox, what would be the capacity, in cubic feet, of the second sandbox?
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Since current volume is:
L*L*L = 10
cube root of 10 = L
Since the new volume is: (2L)^3
(2^3) * (cube root of 10^3)
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