Question

Clare has a set of cubes with a volume of 1 cm³ each. She also has a box with a volume of 24 cm³. Exactly two layers of cubes can fit in this box. How many cubes must be in each layer? its a school problem I'm having trouble with

Answer 1

12 cubes

Explanation:

If the total volume of the box is 24 cm³ and the volume of each cube is 1 cm³ then that means that 24 total cubes can fit perfectly inside the box. Since there can only be two layers of cubes then we simply need to divide the total amount of cubes that will fit in the box by 2 to find the number of cubes in each layer...

24 / 2 = 12 cubes

Finally, we can see that each layer within the box will contain 12 cubes