More Quantitative Confusion

I’m pretty sure printer ink is a huge scam to begin with, and stuff like this doesn’t help.

I went to purchase some ink and looking to minimize my time spent in office supplies stores, I thought I’d buy a two-pack.  “We’re out of the two-pack,” the helpful employee said, “but this is the XL.  It’s the same price as the two-pack, and it has 3 times as much ink as the single cartridge.”

So after my purchase, I felt compelled to perform a side-by-side comparison.

I’d estimate the XL cartridge to be about 120% the size of the original.  But its ink capacity is 350% of the original?  That doesn’t seem to add up.

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