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Volume and surface area cannot be equal, by definition. Volume is a cubic unit, surface is a square unit. Apples and Oranges. However a radius of 1 will certainly yield 1 no matter how big the exponent.

The way to set it up would be to let x = r in "x times x = x times x times x" then cancel out "x times x" on both sides of the equation and 1 = x.

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(Note: Volume is a different measurement to area anyway so the question cannot be answered but if you said the" 'values' were equal" -it would work)

We know that V = 4/3 pr3 (or 4pr3 /3) and S = 4pr2So 4pr2 = 4/3pr3 which rearranges to:r=3This is the ONLY POSSIBLE ANSWER. So to answer your question, to find out the radius of a sphere where the volume and the surface area have the same value, you need to put the equations on either side of the equals and simplify and rearrange to get a formula or number. In this case, it had a number. To clarify, the FINAL ANSWER WOULD BE r=3
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