Question

What is the volume of the following rectangular prism? 4 units 2 1/8 units

Answer 1

Answer: 8 1/2

Step-by-step explanation: Khan

Answer 2

the volume of the prism is simply the area of any of the sides times the length, so in this case the shaded area times 4.

`\stackrel{area}{\left( 2(1)/(8) \right)}(\stackrel{length}{4})\implies \left( \cfrac{17}{8} \right)(4)\implies \cfrac{17}{2}\implies 8.5~units^3`