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A cube has a surface area of 600 square centimeters. What is the side length?

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Answer:

10 cm

Explanation:

The formula for finding the surface area of a cube is 6 x (side length)^2.

Since the surface area equals 600, you can divide the surface area by 6 (because a cube has 6 faces) so that becomes 100. The square root of 100 is 10, so the side length is equal 10 cm.

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