Question

A box made of two cubes with a side of 1 m contains goods worth 4,500.50 lei. The statement "an imaginary box made of 2,000 cubes with a side of 1 m holds the same type of goods, worth 9001000 lei is: a) true b) false

Answer 1

The statement is false.

The volume of the box made of two cubes with a side of 1 m is:

Volume = (1 m * 1 m * 1 m) * 2 = 2 m^3

The value of the goods in the box is 4,500.50 lei.

The volume of an imaginary box made of 2,000 cubes with a side of 1 m would be:

Volume = (1 m * 1 m * 1 m) * 2,000 = 2,000 m^3

However, the statement claims that the imaginary box holds the same type of goods, worth 9001000 lei. This would mean that the value of the goods in the imaginary box is more than 200 times the value of the goods in the real box, which seems highly unlikely. Therefore, the statement is false.

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