To find the volume of a square, you need to times the length and the width of the square. It's pretty simple but what if you have a cube? What would you do?
1. First off, you need to times the length and width of the cube. Yes, just like the square. The cube however has height because it's 3 dimensional. So you also need to times the height of the cube.
Let's do shall we?
6 x 6 = 36 cm squared. = Square.
6 x 6 = 36 x 6 (height) = 216. (Cube)
The volume of the cube is 216 cm cubed. (Cubed comes from multiplying 3 sides of the cube).
To find the surface area of the cube. First you must notice how much sides there are to the cube. In this case, it's 6 sides.
1. Find the surface area for one face of the cube.
6 x 6 = 36.
There are 6 sides to the cube so now you must times that surface area of one face, and times it by 6 for the total amount of faces there are.
6 x 6 = 36 for 1 face.
36 x 6 = 216 squared for 6 faces.
I call this the special cube because the surface area and the volume are both equal. This only happens when the sides of the cube are 6 in length, height, and width.
In order to find the surface area and or volume of any other cube, just follow the steps. I hope this helps. : )
