Question 257464: a shipper box is 14 1/2 in lenght by 9 1/8 wide by 8 11/16 high whats the volume in cubic ft rounded to the nearest 100th of a cubic ft. Found 2 solutions by drk, richwmiller:Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! I would suggest writing all of these as improper fractions and then multiplying like this:
unfortunately, nothing cancels, so we get
Here it is a matter of division to get
rounded, we get cu. ft.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 14 1/2*9 1/8*8 11/16=volume
convert to improper fractions
14 1/2=29/2
9 1/8=73/8
8 11/16=139/16 =
Multiply it out and you get
294263/256=
1149.46
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