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A rectangular solid has a volume of 150 cubic centimeters.
If it is 5 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide, how many centimeters tall is it?
Transcript
- 00:02
Okay Maths members No one for you A rectangular solid
- 00:05
has a volume of one hundred fifty cubic centimeters if
- 00:09
it is five centimeters long and five centimetres wide Well
- 00:13
how many centimetres tall is it Don't think about this
- 00:22
Take off your shoes and stand up straight little rectangular
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- 00:25
solid there We're going to see how tall you are
- 00:27
Or we can just work backwards from well what we
- 00:30
know about this problem and the formula for the volume
- 00:33
of a rectangular solid right The volume of rectangular solid
- 00:36
is length times width times height and were given that
- 00:39
one hundred fifty is five times five times height equal
- 00:43
twenty five times the height of the solid Then must
- 00:46
be one hundred fifty divided by twenty five equals wass
- 00:49
Yeah six centimetres That's it That's easy The answer is
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