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by harsh.champ » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:47 am
How many cubes of 10cm edge can be put in a cubical box of 1m edge?

(A)10
(B)100
(C)1000
(D)10000
(E)100000
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by ajith » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:55 am
harsh.champ wrote:How many cubes of 10cm edge can be put in a cubical box of 1m edge?

(A)10
(B)100
(C)1000
(D)10000
(E)100000
volume of 0.1 m side cube = 0.001
volume of 1 m side cube = 1[spoiler]
no of 10 cm cubes that can be stored in 1m side box = 1/.001 = 1000[/spoiler]
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