Question

You need 1,000,000 number cubes, each measuring one inch one inch on a side . A if you stacked the cubes on top of one another to make an enormous tower how high would they reach? Explain your reasoning

Answer 1

Explanation:

If you have 1,000,000 number cubes, each measuring one inch on a side, then the height of the tower you can build with them can be found by multiplying the number of cubes by the height of a single cube.

The height of a single cube is also one inch, since all sides are equal in length. Therefore, the height of the entire tower would be:

1,000,000 cubes × 1 inch/cube = 1,000,000 inches

To convert this to a more manageable unit, we can divide by the number of inches in a typical measure of length, such as a foot or a mile. For example:

1,000,000 inches ÷ 12 inches/foot ≈ 83,333.33 feet

This is a very tall tower, almost 16 miles high!