SOLUTION: A box 1m by 2m by 5m is filled with cubes of volume 1cm^3. If these small cubes were stacked one on top of the other, how many kilometers high would the stack be?

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Question 1197938: A box 1m by 2m by 5m is filled with cubes of volume 1cm^3. If these small cubes were stacked one on top of the other, how many kilometers high would the stack be?
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn, MathLover1:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1cm is 0.01 m
1 km is 1000 m



-------also same as this number of cubes.
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Answer by ikleyn(52788)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The volume of the box is 1*2*5 = 10 m^3 =  cm^3 =  cm^3.


So, there are  small cubes 1x1x1 cm.


The height of this column will be  


     cm =  m =  m =  km =  kilometers = 100 kilometers.   ANSWER

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Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

volume of the box is


filled with cubes of volume , so convert to

so, you have small cubes stacked one on top of the other which length is
convert to




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