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A prism is filled with 48 cubes with a side length of 1/2 unit. What is the volume of the prism in cubic units? Please I need help I am so bad at math!!!!!

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Answer:

The volume of the prism is 6 unit³

Explanation:

In order to calculate the volume of the prism we first need to calculate the volume of each cube. The volume of a cube is given by the formula below:

volume cube = a³

Where a is the length of the side of the cube. So each cube has a volume of:

volume cube = (1/2)³ = 1/8 unit³

Since the cubes are filling the prism, the volume of the prism is the sum of the volume of all the cubes, in this case 48. Since all the cubes are equal, we can multiply the number of cubes by the volume of one cube in order to calculate the volume of the prism. We have:

volume prism = 48*volume cube

volume prism = 48*(1/8) = 6 unit³

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