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In the figure above, two rectangular solids share a vertex S. P, Q, and R are all vertices of the smaller rectangular solid and points on the edges of the larger solid. What is the ratio of the surface area of the larger to the smaller rectangular solid?
(1) Points P, Q, and R are midpoints of the edges of the larger rectangular solid.
(2) Both rectangular solids are cubes.
If the sides are l, b and h, the bigger rectangular solid has surface area = \(2(lb+bh+lh)\).
We do not know the side or relative measure of the sides of smaller one.
(1) Points P, Q, and R are midpoints of the edges of the larger rectangular solid.
We can straightway see that such 3 sides of 8 smaller ones will form the bigger one, so 1/4.
Otherwise the sides of smaller solid are l/2, b/2, h/2, so surface area = \(2(\frac{lb}{4}+\frac{bh}{4}+\frac{lh}{4})=\frac{(lb+bh+lh)}{2} = \frac{2(lb+bh+hl)}{4}\)
Ratio =\(\frac{1}{4}\)
Suff
(2) Both rectangular solids are cubes
But we do not know
the ratio of sides of both the solids.Insuff
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