SOLUTION: The surface area of a cube has 1.5 times as many cm as the volume of the cube has cubic cm. what is the measure of a side of the cube? Please help! Thank you!
Question 1029263: The surface area of a cube has 1.5 times as many cm as the volume of the cube has cubic cm. what is the measure of a side of the cube? Please help! Thank you! Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, Alan3354:Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
The surface area of a cube has 1.5 times as many cm as the volume of the cube has cubic cm.
What is the measure of a side of the cube? Please help! Thank you!
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Let "a" be the cube edge length.
Then the surface area of the cube is , while its volume is .
According to the condition,
= ,
Hence,
= ---> a = 6 cm.
Answer. The cube edge dimension is 6 cm.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website! The surface area of a cube has 1.5 times as many cm as the volume of the cube has cubic cm. what is the measure of a side of the cube?
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s = side length
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Vol = s^3 cc
SA = 6s^2 sq cms
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1.5s^3 = 6s^2
s^3 = 4s^2
s = 0
s = 4