Question 610711: What is the volume of a rectangular prism? The length is 5cm, the width is 345m and the height is 23km.
Answer by radh(108)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! To solve a rectangular prism (or a cube), you'd use the formula  . But in this case, we have dimensions that are not similar to each other. To make them similar, we'd have to choose a common measure. Let's convert everything to meters.
To convert 5cm to meters, you'd use this formula:  . In this case, it'd be 5/100=.05 meters.
To convert 23km to meters, you'd use this formula: . In this case, it'd be 23*1000=23,000 meters.
345 meters is already in meters, so we don't have to convert that.
Now, you'd plug those into the rectangular prism formula to get: .05*345*23000=396,750 meters in total.
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