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The base of a cube is shown. the area of the base is 1/4 ft ^ 2. what is the volume of the cube

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The surface area of a cube = 6a2 where a is the length of the side of each edge of the cube. Put another way, since all sides of a cube are equal, a is just the lenght of one side of a cube. We have 96 = 6a2 → a2 = 16, so that's the area of one face o

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