Volume and length expansion with beta and alpha

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Summary: Help with volume and length expansion question

Multiple-choice physics question text giving steel's linear expansion coefficient, cooking oil's volume expansion coefficient, and answer choices 50, 75, 100, 150 and 200 degrees Celsius, with answer D.
Hi, I am struggling with this question. I understand that beta = 3 alpha so you use this to sub into the volume expansion equation. Is this correct? Can someone please provide a step by step instruction on how to do this question? Thank you !
 
Hello kgm, ##\qquad## :welcome: ##\qquad## !

Not he way PF works -- see guidelines -- you have to post a real attempt

But an obvious first step is:
Write down the volume expansion equation for the oil and for the pot