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Example Question #1 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cube
The density of gold is and the density of glass is
. You have a gold cube that is
in length on each side. If you want to make a glass cube that is the same weight as the gold cube, how long must each side of the glass cube be?
Weight = Density * Volume
Volume of Gold Cube = side3= x3
Weight of Gold = 16 g/cm3 * x3
Weight of Glass = 3/cm3 * side3
Set the weight of the gold equal to the weight of the glass and solve for the side length:
16* x3 = 2 * side3
side3 = 16/2* x3 = 8 x3
Take the cube root of both sides:
side = 2x
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Volume Of A Figure
Chemicals to clean a swimming pool cost $0.24 per cubic foot of water. If a pool is 6 feet deep, 14 feet long and 8 feet wide, how much does it cost to clean the pool? Round to the nearest dollar.
The volume of the pool can be determined by multiplying the length, width, and height together.
Each cubit foot costs 24 cents, so:
Example Question #1911 : High School Math
A cube has edges that are three times as long as those of a smaller cube. The volume of the bigger cube is how many times larger than that of the smaller cube?
If we let represent the length of an edge on the smaller cube, its volume is
.
The larger cube has edges three times as long, so the length can be represented as . The volume is
, which is
.
The large cube's volume of is 27 times as large as the small cube's volume of
.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cube
A tank measuring 3in wide by 5in deep is 10in tall. If there are two cubes with 2in sides in the tank, how much water is needed to fill it?
Example Question #5 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cube
What is the volume of a cube that has a side length of inches?
We are given the side length of a cube so we simply plug that into the formula for the volume of a cube.
That formula is , and so the correct answer is
.
Make sure to check your units, is the correct number, but the units are squared rather than cubed.
Example Question #952 : Act Math
What is the volume of a cube with a side of length 1 cm?
The formula for the volume of a cube with a side of length is:
Example Question #8 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cube
A cube of sponge has volume . When water is added, the sponge triples in length along each dimension. What is the new volume of the cube, in cubic centimeters?
If our original cube has a volume of , then the length of one of its edges is
. Triple each edge to
, then cube the result, and we obtain
Example Question #953 : Act Math
Find the volume of a cube with side length 10.
To find volume, simply cube the side length. Thus,
Example Question #11 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cube
Find the volume of a cube whose side length is 0.1.
To solve, simply use the formula for volume of a cube. The volume of a cube is length times width times height. Since the height, width, and length are equal on a cube the formula becomes side cubed.
We are given the side length of 0.1 thus,
Example Question #12 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cube
Find the volume of a cube given side length is .
To solve, simply cube the side length. Thus,
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