Problema Solution
The Water Cube was built in Beijing, China, to house the National Swimming Center for the 2008 Olympics. Although not actually a cube (its height is not equal to its length and width), the Water Cube is designed to look like a "cube" of water molecules. The volume of the 31-meter-high Water Cube is
971,199 m3.
Find the length of a side of its square base. Recall that
V = LWH.
Answer provided by our tutors
Since the base is a square we have L = W thus
V = L*L*H, where L is the length of the side of the base and L>0
V = L^2*H
V = 971,199 m^3
H = 31 m
L^2*31 = 971199
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L = 177 m
The length of the side of the square base is 177 meters.