Question

A rectangle prism with a volume of 4 cubic units is filled with cubes with side lengths of 1/3 unit. How many 1/3 unit cubes does it take to fill the prism?

Answer 1

Check the picture below.

so is filled with those cubes, recall that a cube has all equal sides, in this case 1/3, so the volume of each cube is simply the product of length*width*height.

`\bf \stackrel{\textit{volume of one cube}}{\cfrac{1}{3}\cdot \cfrac{1}{3}\cdot \cfrac{1}{3}\implies \cfrac{1}{27}}\qquad \qquad \stackrel{\textit{if there are \underline{x} cubes inside then their total volume is}}{\cfrac{1}{27}x~~~~=~~~~\stackrel{\textit{volume of prism}}{4}} \\\\\\ x=27\cdot 4\implies x=108`