Question

For a snow sculpture contest, snow is

packed into a cube-shaped box with an edge length of
8 feet. The box is frozen and removed, leaving a cube of
snow. One cubic foot of the snow weighs about 30 pounds.
You can estimate the weight (in pounds) of the cube using
the expression 30V where Vis the volume (in cubic feet) of
the snow. About how much does the uncarved cube weigh?

Answer 1

15,360 lbs

Explanation:

Since we are working with the volume of a Cube we will Cube 8 (8*8*8=512) and by getting this number we now know the volume of the cube-shaped box. By also knowing that 1 cubic foot of snow weighs 30 lbs we can then times 512*30 and we end up with 15, 360 lbs of snow in the uncarved cube.