Question

You, Newton, and Descartes each build the rectangular prism shown. You stack all three prisms on top of each other. What is the volume of the new prism? How many times greater is the volume of the new prism than the volume of your original prism?

Answer 1

If we stack the prism of each one of you, we would get the following solid:

As you can see, the width (2 cm) and length (4 cm) of the prism remain the same, only the height changed, now it is 3 cm since we are staking 3 prisms of 1 cm height each.

For rectangular prisms, we can calculate the volume by means of the following formula:

`V=l* h* w`

Where l is the length, w is the width and h is the height of the prism, by replacin