Finding volumes, base area's, width, and height

**Melancholy** · September 9th 2008, 07:28 PM

A) A box has volume 486 in.^3 and height 9 in. Find the area of the base.

B) A box has base area 3.60m^2, height 0.40m. Find the volume.

C) A box has a base area 2.40ft^2 and volume 2.88ft^3. Find the height.

D) A box has the volume 12,960cm^3, height 18 cm, and length 30cm. Find the width.

It's been way too long to remember! AhHH! Could you please help me? I don't remember how to find the area of the base, volume, height, or width of these kinds of problems.

**Chris L T521** · September 9th 2008, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by Melancholy

A) A box has volume 486 in.^3 and height 9 in. Find the area of the base.

Since $V=l\cdot w\cdot h$ , and we know what volume is and what the height is, we need to solve for the area of the base $l\cdot w$ . Thus, we see that $\frac{V}{h}=l\cdot w$ . Plug in the known values and there's you're answer

B) A box has base area 3.60m^2, height 0.40m. Find the volume.

Since $V=l\cdot w\cdot h$ , and we know what height is and what the base area is, we see that $V=l\cdot w\cdot h\implies V=b\cdot h$ , where the base area $b=l\cdot w$ . Plug in the known values and there's you're answer

C) A box has a base area 2.40ft^2 and volume 2.88ft^3. Find the height.

Since $V=l\cdot w\cdot h$ , and we know what volume is and what the base area is, we see that $\frac{V}{\l\cdot w}=h\implies h=\frac{V}{b}$ , where the base area $b=l\cdot w$ . Plug in the known values and there's you're answer

D) A box has the volume 12,960cm^3, height 18 cm, and length 30cm. Find the width.

It's been way too long to remember! AhHH! Could you please help me? I don't remember how to find the area of the base, volume, height, or width of these kinds of problems.

Since $V=l\cdot w\cdot h$ , and we know what the volume, height, and length is, we see that $\frac{V}{l\cdot h}=w$ . Plug in the known values and there's you're answer

I hope this all makes sense!

If you need me to clarify something, feel free to ask.

--Chris

**Death_Eater** · October 20th 2008, 03:32 AM

Hi Chris,

With the equations above what would the symbols be under the divide line,

I have to find the the width of a rectangle with,

1000m-3, length 28m, depth 2m.

this maybe quite simple stuff but i`m pulling my hair out at the mo,

any help would be great,

Steve.

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