Question

the 7th grade fundraiser gives away a large container of gumballs to the student who is closest to guessing the correct number of gumballs in the container noticing that the container is a cube. Sally decides to count the number of gumballs along the length of one side if Sally get 729 gumballs how many gumballs did she count along one side of the container

Answer 1

If the container is a cube, every side is a square, so the length and the width are the same.

To get the number of gumballs based on the number of gumballs in one side, we can use the following equation

`TotalGumballs=x^3`

Where x is the number of gumballs along one side. So, replacing the total by 729 and solving for x, we get:

`\begin{gathered} 729=x^3 \\ \sqrt[3]{729}=x \\ 9=x \end{gathered}`

Answer: She counts 9 gumballs along one side of the container