Living in Malaysia, I'm surrounded by broken English. The schooling here is done mainly in the Malay language, so many people have poor spoken English. I remember asking my colleague if my client could come at 7pm, and she replied Can. This is because in Malay, the reply would be boleh.
Indeed, representing a cell as an idealized sphere of radius r, the volume and surface area are, respectively, V = 4/3 Ï r 3; SA = 4 Ï r 2. The resulting surface area to volume ratio is therefore 3/ r. Thus, if a cell has a radius of 1 Î¼m, the SA:V ratio is 3; whereas if the radius of the cell is instead 10 Î¼m, then the SA:V ratio becomes 0.3. With a cell radius of 100, SA:V ratio is 0.03.
1 Multiplies edge length by six (rather than the area of a side by six) for a surface area of 49.2. 2  Multiplies edge length by three (rather than exponent of three) for a volume of 25.6.  Multiplies edge length by two (rather than squaring the edge length), then that product by six, for a surface area of 98.4.