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volume a'la shmoop.. we're about to go three dimensional

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ladies and gentlemen you may now put on your special glasses we assume you've [Theatre curtains open and 3D glasses appear]

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already got area under your belt.. now it's time to add some depth to the mix..

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let's say we want to find the volume of a cuboid or a three-dimensional

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rectangle for this shape, we can multiply length x height x depth to find the volume

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which allows us to determine its capacity another way to think of [A car appears outside a circus tent]

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capacity is the amount of space in an object...Ok so we've got a cuboid which is

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three units long 5 units wide and 10 units deep, well 3 times 5 times 10 is

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150 so this figure has a volume of 150 cubic whatever you call its.. we refer to [A cuboid and a boy appears shrugging his shoulders]

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these units as cubic because you could fit a bunch of cubes in there if you

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wanted to. Understanding volume in general and how it works comes in handy [A green man riding a unicorn]

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in many real-world professions, for example liquid is always measured in

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volume which means that determining how much medicine to give a patient is [Person administering a little girl medicine]

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essentially a volume calculation doctors are thankfully into specifics, volume is

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also big when it comes to construction unless you like it when you're doing [A digger moving lots of soil]

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system explodes.. And don't even try cooking something without using volume you're in

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trouble if you're following a recipe that calls for 8 square inches of olive [A woman holding a large pack of butter and a woman with a bottle of olive oil and measuring tape]

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oil so, let volume be your new friend accept it embrace it, just don't squeeze too

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hard or you can shatter the measuring cup [Woman squeezes measuring cup and it shatters]

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