Assume a cube has side lengths of 2 inches. What is the area of the base of that cube? Does it matter which face we call the base? What is the volume of that cube? Instead, assume the cube has side lengths of 3 inches. What is the area of the base now? The volume? Based on that, what do you think the relationship is between side length, area, and volume? Would that still be true even if it is not a cube? (Put another way, if the side length is x, what is the area and volume?)