a toy company uses the Box shown below to package wooden cubes each wooden Cube has a volume of 1/8 cubic feet in total how many wooden cubes will fit in the Box
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Answer 240 cubes can go in the box. You have to assume that the 1/8 cube is similiar in shape to the box they are being shipped in.
volume of the box = L * W * H Volume of the box = 5 * 3 * 2 Volume of the box = 30 cu feet.
Now we come to the fractions. The number of cubes can be written as [tex]\text{Cubes =}\frac{30}{\frac{1}{8} } [/tex]
To make the problem more understandable, change the 30 to 30/1 [tex] \frac{ \frac{30}{1} }{ \frac{1}{8} } [/tex]
Now when you have a 4 level fraction like this, the rule is to invert and multiply. In other words, you make 1/8 into 8/1 and multiply by 30/1