Showing posts with label multiply. Show all posts
Showing posts with label multiply. Show all posts

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Volume in cubic miles

We must think of the irregularly shaped object as a collection of known geometric shapes. Remember the formulas for are of a rectangle and a semicircle. We need to recall that the formula for Volume is area of base multiplied by height.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Dividing fractions

Here is an example involving division of two mixed numbers. We first change the mixed numbers to improper fraction then we honor the definition of division.