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the volume of a rectangular prism is 72 cubic centimeters.the prism is 2centimeters wide and 4 centimeters high what is the length of the prism?​

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The length is 9 centimeters.

-The formula to find the volume of a rectangular prism is length times width times height.

-We already know the height and width is four and two. Two times four is eight.

-This means eight times the length is seventy-two.

-Looking at this algebraically, we have 8x=72.

-So we finally divide both sides by 8 to get x=9

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