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Title: Need maths help. Simple question
Post by: TyranT on June 05, 2019, 07:39:27 am
Hello,
could i please get help for question 12b? I need to understand the concept. I know the answer to 12a. The textbook says the answer to 12b is 19mm, but i'm not getting it.
Much appreciated.
Sorry for my stupidity. Answer found.
Title: Re: Need maths help. Simple question
Post by: Bri MT on June 05, 2019, 09:59:29 am
Hey,

First of all kudos on your courage in asking for help even though you felt self-concious about it - imo that says a lot more about you as a learner/student than not getting a problem :)

Secondly,  here's the process:
a) (which you got)
1. 14/2  cm^3 = 7 cm^3
2. (7 cm^3)^(1/3) = 7^(1/3) cm
B)
1. 7^(1/3) cm is roughly 1.9 cm
2. cm is 10 times bigger than mm so: 1.9 cm = 19 mm

You might find this way of including units weird and you certainly don't have to do that in your working but I thought it might be useful since unit conversion is where you were stuck

Good luck & please let me know if anything in this explanation doesn't make sense :)
Title: Re: Need maths help. Simple question
Post by: TyranT on June 07, 2019, 01:34:41 pm
Thank you