Question

How do you find the volume of a rectangular box given only the height and width? The height is 25 units and the width is 15 units.

Answer 1

do you have the final volume?

Answer 2

no that was all they gave me

Answer 3

the diagram showed a rectangular cube with an elipse on the top and bottom and told me to find the volum when the width is 15 and height is 25

Answer 4

Can't be done. You have to have 3 measurements to find volume.

There has to be more information available.

Answer 5

I thought it was impossible... but maybe the elipse has something to do with it?

Answer 6

Only if the ellipse had its formula AND occupied the box's length.

Answer 7

well it doesnt have a fomula but it seems to be the box's length, at least im guessing its meaning too

Answer 8

Ellipses are rather mathematically complicated - especially compared to circles. Definitely NEED a formula for it if its presence defines the length of the box.

Here's a little about ellipses:
http://www.clausentech.com/lchs/dclausen/algebra2/ellipses.htm

Answer 9

so is this question solvable? because im still trying

Answer 10

maybe by 'volume' they meant 2D volume, rather than 3D :|

Answer 11

lol na the answers given are 12046, 4447,5625,4418,1207. The only possibility is they left information out which i doubt

Answer 12

Not by me, and I don't believe in magic. :-)

The best you can do is find the area of the frontface and backface with H*W

Answer 13

ok thanks for trying though. im trying to use trig functions to solve it by expanding out the cube

Answer 14

WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT????

They are all you need to figure out the width!!!

Answer 15

Hold on...

Answer 16

what is the "verbatim" question?

Answer 17

Determine the volume of the solid figure below.

Answer 18

something tells me we're getting shortchanged in the transcription :P

Answer 19

"Determine the volume of the solid figure below" , ok, let's see the "figure below" :)

Answer 20

um... could you draw it out? its a rectangular cube with a height of 25, width of 15 and two elipses, one on the top plane and one on the bottom plane and thats it

Answer 21

is it on paper? if it's on the screen just take a screenshot and attach it :|

Answer 22

its on paper

Answer 23

any digicam around? :), I mean, most cellphones have one

Answer 24

or a webcam

Answer 25

Here's what I think this all means:

These numbers are WAY to large to be "lengths" of this box. I think they're the volumes, and you're supposed to extrapolate the length from it.

Height*width = 25*15=375

This means volume / 375 = length

So if volume is the first figure, then length must be the second one.
12046 = 32.12266666
4447 = 11.858666666
5625 = 15
4418 = 11.781333333
1207 = 3.2186666666

Take your pick. I think I see the probable answer.

Answer 26

im not sure where your getting at. I mean i understand the whole process but im not sure what you mean by the probable answer.

Answer 27

I'm only picking the integer quotient because it's a nice and pretty integer value, just like the H and W are.

Answer 28

ah well then that would make sense lol but thats not the right one :/ do you want to know the right answer?

Answer 29

Yes, DEFINITELY.

Answer 30

it was D) 4418 lol im really not sure how though

Answer 31

Which would make the length = 11.781333333

That number has GOT to have been made available to you somewhere.
H=25
W=15
L = 11.781333333

Volume = H*W*L

25 * 15 * 11.781333333 = 4417.999999875 = 4418

That just doesn't make any sense to me Even if you fractionalized 11.781333333 you get 11 25/32, which is ridiculous.

Tell your teacher qweqwe said she's nuts. :P

Answer 32

haha ok i wll and thanks for the help. I think im going to keep trying at this. You never know i may get lucky in the next ten years or so....