Miss Taggart sells basic cookie dough mix. She has been using circular cylindrical containers to package the mix but wants to change to rectangular prisms that will pack in cartons for shipping more efficiently. Her present packaging has a circular base with a diameter of 4.0 inches and a height of 5.8 inches. She wants the height of the new package to be 6.0 inches and the dimensions of the base to be in the ratio 2 : 5 find to the nearest tenth, the dimensions of the new package if the volume is to be the same as the volume of the cylindrical containers.

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