Calculating the Volume of a House

[Gabrielle227]

Homework Statement

A house is 62 ft long and 29 ft wide, and has
7.3 ft high ceilings.
What is the volume of the interior of the
house?
Answer in units of cm3

Homework Equations

LxWxH ??

The Attempt at a Solution

62x29x7.3= 13125.4
Then I converted it to cm and got 400062

 

[Nathanael]

62x29x7.3= 13125.4
Then I converted it to cm and got 400062

But the units are not centimeters. They are cubic centimeters. You need to convert from "cubic feet" to "cubic centimeters"
(You went from "feet" to "cm" which is incorrect)

I would suggest doing the conversion at the beginning of the problem

 

[dk_ch]

your should be 62x29x7.3x(12x2.54)^3 cm³

since 1 ft =12 inch and 1 inch =2.54 cm