a square-based pyramid is cut with a plane parallel to the base by half the height, obtaining a smaller pyramid and a pyramid trunk. How many times the larger the volume of the trunk with respect to the volume of the small pyramid?

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.