math college 1012

Question

 After the large slabs of travertine were mined in Italy, they were cut into smaller blocks that were used to construct the Getty Museum. According to the website www.getty.edu, on the average each block at the Getty Center is 76  76 centimeters and weighs 115 kilograms, with a typical thickness of 8 centimeters. Find the volume of an average block of travertine.

Answer 1

Find the volume of an average block of travertine. We are given 3 dimensions and weight. Volume is about space, not weight, so we can ignore the weight.

The formula for the Volume of a rectangular prism is width × length × height

If you're unsure of where to plug in each number, it actually doesn't matter because of the associative property of multiplication, which just says order doesn't matter in multiplication, i.e. 2 × 3 = 6 just like 3 × 2 = 6.

So we can just plug in all the 3 dimensions we were given!

V = w × l × h

V = 76cm × 76cm × 8cm

V = 46,208cm³