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Elana has 80 unit squares. What is the volume of the largest cube she can build with them? Need to show work to explain to my son, having a hard time with this.

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Answer: The largest cube has volume of 64 cubic units, and the sides are 4 units long.

Explanation:

Elena has 80 unit cubes and she has to build the largest cube using the unit cubes she has

Unit cube has a dimension of 1 unit on each side (Cube has all sides equal)

To make the largest cube, she needs to calculate the maximum volume which is near 80 units of cubes

Therefore,

We have a cube with each side 4 units whose volume is 64 and a cube with each side 5 units whose volume is 125

Elena has only 80 unit cubes to build the maximum-sized cube

Therefore she will be able to build a cube with each side as 4 units with a volume of 64 units with 16 spare cubes

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