Cube root - math word problems

  1. An example
    cubes3_2 An example is playfully for grade 6 from Math and I don't know how to explain it to my daughter when I don't want to use the calculator to calculate the cube root. Thus: A cuboid was made from a block of 16x18x48 mm of modeline. What will be the edge of
  2. Two rectangular boxes
    cuboid_2 Two rectangular boxes with dimensions of 5 cm, 8 cm, 10 cm, and 5 cm, 12 cm, 1 dm are to be replaced by a single cube box of the same cubic volume. Calculate its surface.
  3. The edge of a cube
    cubes How much does the edge of a cube of 54.9 cm3 measure?
  4. Cuboid and ratio
    cuboid_2 Find the dimensions of a cuboid having a volume of 810 cm3 if the lengths of its edges coming from the same vertex are in ratio 2: 3: 5
  5. Wall thickness
    sphere_Nickel The hollow metal ball has an outside diameter of 40 cm. Determine the wall thickness if the weight is 25 kg and the metal density is 8.45 g/cm3.
  6. One third power
    cube-root Which equation justifies why ten to the one-third power equals the cube root of ten?
  7. Alien ship
    cube_in_sphere The alien ship has the shape of a sphere with a radius of r = 3000m, and its crew needs the ship to carry the collected research material in a cuboid box with a square base. Determine the length of the base and (and height h) so that the box has the large
  8. Three members GP
    exp_growth The sum of three numbers in GP (geometric progression) is 21 and the sum of their squares is 189. Find the numbers.
  9. Six speeds
    gears-3 A drilling machine is to have 6 speed ranging from 50 to 750 revolution per minute. If the speed forms a geometric progression, determine their values.
  10. Cube into cylinder
    cube_sphere_in If we dip a wooden cube into a barrel with a 40cm radius, the water will rise 10 cm. What is the size of the cube edge?
  11. Profit growth
    growth The profit of a company increased by 25% during the year 1992, increased by 40% during the year 1993, decreased by 20% in the year 1994 and increased by 10% during the year 1995. Find the average growth in the profit level over the four years periods?
  12. Cube root
    cubes_27 For 13, Sam wrote 2891 instead of the correct cube number. By how much was he wrong?
  13. Perfect cubes
    cubes3_7 Suppose a number is chosen at random from the set (0,1,2,3,. .. ,202). What is the probability that the number is a perfect cube?
  14. The volume 2
    cubes3_11 The volume of a cube is 27 cubic meters. Find the height of the cube.
  15. Cube diagonals
    cube_diagonals_4 Calculate the length of the side and the diagonals of the cube with a volume of 27 cm3.
  16. Body diagonal
    cube_diagonals_2 Calculate the cube volume, whose body diagonal size is 75 dm. Draw a picture and highlight the body diagonal.
  17. Cube surface and volume
    cube_shield_6 Find the surface of the cube with a volume of 27 dm3.
  18. Seawater
    ice_cubes Seawater has a density of 1025 kg/m3, ice 920 kg/m3. 8 liters of seawater froze and created a cube. Calculate the size of the cube edge.
  19. Minimum surface
    cuboid_20 Find the length, breadth, and height of the cuboid shaped box with a minimum surface area, into which 50 cuboid shaped blocks, each with length, breadth and height equal to 4 cm, 3 cm and 2 cm respectively can be packed.
  20. Cube root
    30gon_1 Find cube root of 18

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