Question

The air conditioning unit for marcus building has the shape of a cube and has a volume of 0.512 cubic meters.This air conditioner will be replaced with another cube-shaped unit with a volume of 1 cubic meter. By how much will the edge length of the air conditioner change?

Answer 1

The edge length of the air conditioner changed by 0.2m

Explanation:

The volume of a cube is S^3

The edge length of the former unit is cube root of 0.512 which is 0.8 m

The edge length of the new is cube root of 1 which is 1 m

The difference is 1-0.8 = 0.2 m