SOLUTION: How many sugar cubes can fit in a school bus and why?

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Question 891252: How many sugar cubes can fit in a school bus and why?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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European sugar cube or American sugar cube?
Thomas Built or Blue Bird school bus?
OK Find the volume of the school bus.
Just as a guess we'll say it's 8' wide, 8' tall and 20' long.
In inches that would be, 96x96x240.
The volume is the product of these numbers.
V%5Bbus%5D=96%2A96%2A24
V%5Bbus%5D=2211840in%5E3
Next find the volume of a sugar cube.
Also a guess, we'll say it's a 1/2" cube.
V%5Bcube%5D=%281%2F2%29%5E3=1%2F8in%5E3
The number of sugar cube would be the volume of the bus divided by the volume of the sugar cube.
+N=V%5Bbus%5D%2FV%5Bcube%5D=2211840%288%29=17694720cubes
That's a lot of cubes.