There are 200 toothpicks in a regular-size box. if a jumbo-size box is made by tripling the length, width, and height of the regular box, how many toothpicks will the jumbo box hold?

Hi!

You're tripling three dimensions in this case; the length, the width, and the height. Since you're tripling all three of them, and not just one, you don't multiply the original by 3 just once, you multiply it by 3, three times, for all 3 dimensions.

You can use 3 ^ 3, or 3 * 3 * 3, to figure out how much you have to multiply the original by, since you're multiplying 3 by itself 3 times.

3 * 3 * 3 = 27

So you want to multiply the original value, in this case 200, by 27.

200 * 27 = 5,400 toothpicks

Hope this helped!

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