Friday, March 12, 2010

The volume of a shoe box would be about?

a.3,000 km3


b. 3,000cm3


c. 3,000cm2

The volume of a shoe box would be about?
b


For one thing, there's no way that even one dimension of a shoe box will be 1 km, so there's no way that all three dimensions would have a product of 3000


c is not possible because cm2 is for area, and for volume, the unit must be cubed, so 3000cm3 is the only answer left.


b. 3,000cm3
Reply:By elimination, the answer would be "b" -- 3000 cm^3 -- because it is the size that is (using common sense) best fit to be a shoe box that we know in the real work\ld.





Choice "a" can not be a shoe box because of the units "km^3" as this would be a very big shoe box. This would clearly envelop a small town,





Choice "c" cannot be a volume because of its "cm^2" unit of measurement.
Reply:anwser is b



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