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SAT Math: Using Volume to Determine the Number of Blocks in a Box 1 Views


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Kyle has block cubes that each have side lengths of two inches, how many of these will fit into the box above?


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Yeah Whoa Okay I say team Asham uppers Got another

00:05

box here Six by ten by four Kyle has blocked

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cubes that each have side lengths of two inches How

00:12

many of these will fit into the box above fun

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Fact The volume of the cube is its side length

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to the third power or cubed Yeah that's why I

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got this fancy name Mathematicians are oh so good at

00:26

labeling things Apparently while Kyle needs find a volume of

00:29

the box Because volume measures how much three dimensional space

00:33

there is inside And that space is going to be

00:35

filled with bunch cubes Right So the total cubic inches

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is four times ten times six at two hundred forty

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cubic inches We gotta find the volume of each of

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the cubes to see how much space they take up

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while sitting in the box All right well let's see

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uh one of Cuba's two inches And so we're going

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to take eight cubic inches per cube Right So lastly

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we got to see how many of these fun little

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cubes can neatly fit inside the box Or rather how

01:01

the space in the box can be divided up for

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the cubes there right So if it's two hundred forty

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cubic inches total and assuming the cubes fit in there

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neatly with no air space we can divide them by

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the eight cubic inches they are each And while the

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answer is just two forty divided by age which is 00:01:17.56 --> [endTime] thirty cubes and that's it

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