What is the volume, in cubic inches, of a 12 ounce can?
In other words, how may cubic inches in a 12 oz can?
Make a guess. What is your intuition? An ice cube from an older ice cube tray is about 1 cubic inch. How many ice cubes would melt and fill a 12 ounce can? What are some other ways you might refine your guess?
Measure the radius and height of a soda can and compute an estimate. Why is this an "estimate" rather than an exact volume?
How many cubic centimeters are in a 12 ounce can? Coca-Cola and 7-up 12 ounce cans have 355 ml printed on them. In the metric system one milliliter is one cubic centimeter (1 ml = 1 cc). So there are 355 cc in a 12 ounce can (approximately). Actually it is slightly less . . . approx 354.88How many cubic centimeters in one cubic inch? For conversions, we take one inch equal to 2.54 cm. Therefore 1 cubic inch is (2.54)(2.54)(2.54) cubic centimeters. (Approx 16.39).
Are your guesses and estimates close to
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