Question

SIXTH GRADE MATH HELP? Medal+Fan :)


What is a geometric solid suggested by a number cube?

Answer 1

A cube ?

Answer 2

And why? Or is that just a guess...because I really need this.

Answer 3

???

Answer 4

Well, despite the obviously literal reason ("what is the geometric solid suggest by a number's CUBE?")...

Think of it as this. You should know that the area of a square is the square of a side. (notice the literal thing again ?)

The reason it is so is because of how we "solve" the area of a cube. You take one side and draw a line the length of a side perpendicular on it. And then another one. And another one and so on until you've filled your side with perpendicular sides on it. The resulting "drawing" is going to be a filled cube - or in mathematical terminology, the area of a cube.

So you started with one side and you kept drawing perpendicular lines on it from top to bottom and got to the area of a cube - which is why the area of a cube is side*side.

In more complex terms, you started with a point (1D), you connected that point with another point to make a side (length) and then you turned it into a square by adding a new dimension to it (length and width).

Now that we have a surface - what you are doing by multiplying that surface with another side again is basically adding a new dimension called height - because there's no other way to go but up.

Or in other words, imagine piling an x times of surfaces with an x^2 area on top of each other (kind of like what you did with perpendicular lines except it's surfaces now). The resulting geometrical figure will be a "filled" cube - or in mathematical terminology, the volume of a cube.

Answer 5

What the heck did you just say

Answer 6

Im sorry im dumb