SOLUTION: how to find the diameter of a ball that has been melted from a rectangular prism

Question 433394: how to find the diameter of a ball that has been melted from a rectangular prism
Answer by Gersid(33) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First find the volume of the rectangular prism:

now set this equal to the volume of the sphere:
to get:
Solve this for .
Take the cube root of both sides.
Now multiply by 2 to get the diameter.
Simplify.

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