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Help with number 2 please

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Answer:

7 cm

Explanation:

You want the edge length of a cube whose space diagonal is 7√3 cm.

Face diagonal

The square of the face diagonal of a cube of edge length s is ...

d² = s² +s² = 2s²

Space diagonal

The square of the space diagonal is found by applying the Pythagorean theorem again. The space diagonal is the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are one cube edge and the face diagonal.

D² = s² +d² = s² +2s² = 3s²

D = √(3s²) = s√3

So, we want to find s when D = 7√3:

s√3 = 7√3

s = 7

The edge length of the cube is 7 cm.

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