Question in comments:P

Question

anonymous · Answer

attachment

hitaro9 · Answer

Alright. If I were to give you a side length of a cube, and to solve for the volume from there, would you be able to do that?

anonymous · Answer

uhhhhh. nope.

hitaro9 · Answer

Okay that's fine

hitaro9 · Answer

So, what is a cube? If I gave you a box and I told you it was a cube, what are some things you could say about it?

hitaro9 · Answer

Anything at all, it doesn't even need to be relevant to the problem. What makes a cube a cube?

anonymous · Answer

The shape.

hitaro9 · Answer

That's good. What about the shape?

anonymous · Answer

It has all same size sides

hitaro9 · Answer

Right perfect. So, what is volume exactly?

anonymous · Answer

I dont know :(

hitaro9 · Answer

Oh okay that's fine. Do you know what surface area is?

hitaro9 · Answer

Or, do you know what area is in general?

hitaro9 · Answer

If I told you to find the area of this square, could you do that? |dw:1444859352456:dw|

anonymous · Answer

Lw i believe

anonymous · Answer

3x3=A

hitaro9 · Answer

Okay yes, that's great. Exactly right. So the area would be A. 

Now, if I told you that a perfect square has an area of 16, would you be able to figure out the length of the sides?

anonymous · Answer

8

hitaro9 · Answer

So the square would look like this? |dw:1444859454212:dw|

anonymous · Answer

yes.

hitaro9 · Answer

So if we use your length times width formula, we have
8x8 = 16?

anonymous · Answer

yes.

hitaro9 · Answer

What is 2x8?

anonymous · Answer

wait. i feel stupid.

hitaro9 · Answer

Its fine haha. So yeah, keep in mind that area is multiplication not addition.

hitaro9 · Answer

So, starting over, if I told you the area of a square is, say, 25
Could you find the length?

anonymous · Answer

Im still rlly confused.

hitaro9 · Answer

Its okay, we're starting off with something simpler. A square has area 25. You know that a square has all sides equal. Can you figure out the length?

anonymous · Answer

12.5?

hitaro9 · Answer

You're dividing by two again. That didn't work when the area was 16 did it?

anonymous · Answer

Ughhhh

hitaro9 · Answer

Okay so, length times width. = Area right?

anonymous · Answer

yes.

hitaro9 · Answer

Because Length = width for a square, we have

LxL = A 

LxL = 16

hitaro9 · Answer

Can you think of an L that makes that true?

anonymous · Answer

No. Im terrible at math. Just forget it. Sorry to waste your time. And thanks for trying to help.

hitaro9 · Answer

No no its fine. We're making progress

hitaro9 · Answer

Okay. I'm going to draw a few that we already know the answer to, and we'll see if we can find a pattern

anonymous · Answer

Okay. But im never going to get this.

hitaro9 · Answer

|dw:1444859941557:dw|