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Sense of scale: two watermelons

L1

At the market, a mini watermelon 15cm in diameter and a regular watermelon 30cm in diameter sit side by side. Assume both are perfect spheres with the same fill and the same density.

The regular watermelon has twice the diameter — about how many times the weight (the amount you can eat) of the mini watermelon is it?