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Bob has 150 grams of gold, and he wants to use it all to make a cube. Given that the density of gold is 19.3 grams / cubic centimeter, how long should each side of the cube be? (Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.) Show all work/Explanation

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Answer:

1.98 cm side length of the cube

Explanation:

150 gm / 19.3 gm/cm^3 = 7.77202 cm^3

take the cube root to find the side length = 1.98 cm

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