An aquarium has a rectangular base of 36 cm by 12 cm. If it’s volume is 6912 cm cube. Find it’s height

Answer 1

Hi Romeo!

Ok, so to find the volume of a rectangular prism, we multiply the length x width x height. The question tells us that the base is 36 cm x 12 cm and that the total volume is 6912 cm^3.

First, plug in our known values to our l*w*h=volume equation and simplify.

36cm x 12cm x height = 6912cm^3

432cm^2 x height = 6912 cm^3

now, divide both sides by 432 cm^2 to solve for height.

height= 6912cm^3/432cm^2 = 16cm.

The height is 16 cm.

Hope that helped!