Question

Bill has a container that is shaped like a cube. He uses 125 cubes with a side length of 1 inch to fill the container completely. What is the edge length of the container? *****Hint: 1 inch cubes to fill a container is the volume of the cube Please answer quickly!!! Thank you.

Answer 1

5 inches

Explanation:

Given

Length of a cube = 1 inch

Required

Determine the edge length of the cube

If the container can take 125 cubes, then that's the volume

So:

`Volume = 125in^3`

Volume of a cube is calculated as thus;

`Volume = Length^3`

This gives;

`Length^3 = 125`

Take cube root of both sides

`Length = \sqrt[3]{125}`

`Length = 5`

Hence, the length is 5 inches