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UNDERSTAND VOLUME

When water is poured from the graduated cylinder below into a rectangular
prism, the rectangular prism is completely filled.

How many 1-cm unit cubes can be packed into the rectangular prism with no gaps
or overlaps?
Answer____ 1-cm unit cubes
Explain your answer.

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Check the picture below.

liquid always take the shape of the container that contains it, so 25 cm³ from a beaker or pitcher or a curvy pipe dumped into another container, will always have 25 cm³ as its volume.

In this case it went from the cylinder to a prism, same 25 cm³.

notice in the picture, the volume of a green cube with those dimensions is just 1 cm³.

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