Question

A rectangular prism has a length of 7 cm, a width of 4 cm, and a height of 212 cm. the prism is filled with cubes that have edge lengths of 12 cm. how many cubes are needed to fill the rectangular prism? enter your answer in the box. to fill the rectangular prism, cubes are needed.

Answer 1

The volume of the rectangular prism is found with 7x4x212=5936
The volume of the cube is found with 12x12x12, because all the sides on a cube are equal= 1728
To find how many cubes fir in the rectangular prism, you divide the volumes
5936 divided by 1728= 3.435 when rounded to the nearest thousanth