SOLUTION: Concrete contracts as it dries. After drying, if the volume of a cubical concrete block decreased by 29cm^3 and each edge decreased by 0.10 cm, what was the orginial length of an e
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Question 966054: Concrete contracts as it dries. After drying, if the volume of a cubical concrete block decreased by 29cm^3 and each edge decreased by 0.10 cm, what was the orginial length of an edge of the block?
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