Question

How would you find the volume of a tower created from 1,000 cans that were each 12oz in volume?

Answer 1

Answer:

  Multiply the number of cans by the volume of each: 12,000 oz.

Step-by-step explanation:

You find the total volume of more than one can by adding the volumes of the cans involved.

For 2 cans, the volume would be ...

  12 oz + 12 oz = 24 oz

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When you consider adding numbers more than a couple of times, you start looking for ways to simplify the effort. Multiplication was invented for that purpose. Here, multiplying the volume of 1 can by 1000 is the same as adding the volumes of 1000 cans.

For 1000 cans with volume of 12 oz each, the volume of the total is ...

  1000 × 12 oz = 12,000 oz.