Question

A student measures the length,width, and height of a fish tank. She finds that the fish tank is 105cm long, 75cm wide,and 80.5 cm high. What is the volume of the fish tank? Show your work. Use scientific notation and show the correct number of significant figures in your answer

Answer 1

The volume of the fish tank is 633,957.5 cubic cm or 0.634 cubic meter.

The formula for calculating the volume of a cuboid is

= length × breadth ×height

Given :

the length of fish tank = 105 cm

The width of fish tank= 75 cm

The height of fish tank= 80.5 cm

So, the volume of the fish tank =105×75 ×80.5

=633,957.5
`cm^(3)`

In metric units ;

1 meter = 100 cm

So, converting all the dimensions into metric units.

length of fish tank = 1.05 m

width of fish tank = 0.75 m

height of fish tank = 0.805 m

So, the volume of fish tank = 1.05 x 0.75 x 0.805

= 0.6339575
`m^(3)` or

= 0.634
`m^(3)`