Question

A rectangular prism is completely packed with 180 cubes of edge length fraction 1/3 inch, without any gap or overlap. Which of the following describes the volume of this rectangular prism?

19 unit cubes and 9 smaller cubes of volume fraction 1/27 cubic inch each

19 unit cubes and 27 smaller cubes of volume fraction 1/27 cubic inch each

6 unit cubes and 6 smaller cubes of volume fraction 1/27 cubic inch each

6 unit cubes and 18 smaller cubes of volume fraction 1/27 cubic inch each

Answer 1

please help me

Answer 2

@freckles

Answer 3

looks like math. Also looks like I will be no help to you here.

Answer 4

can anyone else please help me

Answer 5

will fan,medal,and write testimonal

Answer 6

I was wondering myself what a "unit cube"

Answer 7

i was think a unit cube was a 1 by 1 by 1
I don't know what the smaller cube thing is... I guess they are talking about the 1/3 by 1/3 by 1/3 thingy

Answer 8

right... was thinking along those lines

Answer 9

A unit cube, more formally a cube of side 1, is a cube whose sides are 1 unit long. The volume of a 3-dimensional unit cube is 1 cubic unit, and its total surface area is 6 square units.
-google

Answer 10

well.... you don't happen to have a picture of the prims, do you?

Answer 11

no sry thats all of the question

Answer 12

but you know it looks like -> https://rossellacoletto.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rubiks-cube.jpg kinda
short from that, is not a cube, is just a rectangular prism

Answer 13

yes just recangular

Answer 14

ok.... so... each of the small cubes have a side of 1/.3

notice, the small cubes are actually, "cubes", so what would be the volume of one of those small ones?

Answer 15

1/3

Answer 16

no 1/3^3 is what?

Answer 17

1/3^3? where did that come from?

Answer 18

I was about to say what is that

Answer 19

well, yes, but the small ones look like

so... what would be the volume of a cube like that then?