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Question
Tanu is making a stage with matchboxes.
She first puts 14 matchboxes like this in the first layer.
She makes 4 such layers and her stage looks like this.
- The volume of one matchbox is the same as 10 cm cubes. Then the volume of this stage is the same as ________ cm cubes.
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Solution
Volume of 1 matchbox = 10 cubic cm
Hence, volume of 56 matchboxes
= 10 x 56
= 560 cm cubes.
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