Question

A house is 54.0 ft long and 48 ft wide, and has 8.0-ft-high ceilings. What is the volume of the interior of the house in cubic meters and cubic centimeters? Answers needs to be in appropriate significant figures.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Length of house, l = 54 ft = 16.45 m

Breadth of house, b = 48 ft = 14.63 m

Height of house, h = 8 ft = 2.43 m

We need to find the volume of the interior of the house. The house is in the form of cuboid. The volume of cuboid is given by :

$V=l\times b\times h$

$V=16.45\ m\times 14.63\ m\times 2.43\ m$

$V=584.81\ m^3$

Since, $1\ m^3=1000000\ cm^3$

or the volume of the interior of the house, $V=5.84\times 10^8\ cm^3$

Hence, this is the required solution.