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Measurement and Geometry Drill 4 Problem 1. What is the total volume of the figure?

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Here’s a question to provide your daily dose of shmoop…

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Q-Bert is having a staircase built… and of course he’s using cubes to do it.

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The blueprint below consists of 1 inch cubes. 

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What is the total volume of the figure?

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And here are the potential answers...

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This one’s all about the visualization – and we have 3 layers of steps here to calculate.

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The bottom layer here is 1 2 3 deep by 1 2 3 4 wide;

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The middle layer here is 1 2 deep by 1 2 3 4 wide

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And the top layer is just 1 deep by 4 wide.

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The problem asks us to add the cubes to get the volume – and since they are each just

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1 by 1, the arithmetic should be pretty easy.

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The volume of a cube is simply base times height times depth… and note that they are

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described in terms of CUBIC inches.

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Like they could've given you some curve ball like saying square inches in the answer set,

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and boy, that would be wrong.

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So our total then is 4 times 3 for the base layer, which is 12…

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plus 2 times 4 for the 2nd layer, which is 8… and 4 times 1 for the top layer… which is 4.

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Add ‘em all up and we have 12 plus 8 plus 4 to give us... 24.

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Our answer is D.

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As in...

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