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Which occupies mrs space, 3m cubed or 100ft cubed

User Jacky Mok
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The question is somewhat ambiguous.

-- It's hard to tell whether it's asking about '3 cubic meters'
or (3m)³ which is actually 27 cubic meters.

-- It's hard to tell whether it's asking about '100 cubic feet'
or (100 ft)³ which is actually 1 million cubic feet.

I'm going to make an assumption, and then proceed to
answer the question that I have invented.
I'm going to assume that the question is referring to
'three cubic meters' and 'one hundred cubic feet' .

OK. We'll obviously need to convert some units here.
I've decided to convert the meters into feet.

For 1 meter, I always use 3.28084 feet.

Then (1 meter)³ = 1 cubic meter = (3.28084 ft)³ = 35.31 cubic feet.

So 3 cubic meters = (3 x 35.31 cubic feet) = 105.9 cubic feet.

That's more volume than 100 cubic feet.

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