How To Find The Volume Of a Cube

What is a cube?

How do we find out and calculate the volume of a cube? First of all, let’s understand what a cube is. What makes a cube a cube? Before we calculate the volume of a cube, let us find out the characteristics of a cube. So! what is a cube?

A cube is a three-dimensional shape, A cube’s width, length and height are all equal in measurement,

A cube is made up of 6 square faces, all sides are equal in length and all meet at the right angle.

What is Volume

Let’s imagine we have an empty box. The space inside the box is the volume. Volume is simply the measurement of space inside the box or any three-dimensional object.

Working out the volume of a cube is relatively simple. To find out the volume of a cube we must simply multiply the cube’s length x width x height. Remember! The cube has sides all equal in length. So When working out a cube volume we use s3. s represents the length of one of the cube’s sides. We have provided helpful diagrams below to help you along.

Finding The Length of A Cube

When presented with an abstract math problem prompting us to find the volume of a cube we will be given a diagram of the length of one of the cube’s sides. This information is all we need to work out the volume of a cube. If however, we wanted to find out the volume of a real-life shape such as a cube, a measurement tool such as a ruler or tape measure will be needed to measure the side of the cube.

To understand with further clarity we will do a walk-through and solve an equation step by step. Let’s start by saying the side of the cube is 4 inches (10.16cm) long. This information is what we need to work out the volume of the cube.

The Volume of a Cube

To find the volume of a cube we must multiply the length of the side of the cube by itself twice. In other words, we must multiply the length x width x height. So if the length of our cube is 4 inches long. The formula would be 4x4x4 or (4in)2 =64. See the diagram.