SUGAR CUBES!!! Part 3

Geometry Level 2

A sugar company wants people to use sugar cubes more often. The first person to get the puzzle right (Which is three parts) gets free sugar for life! Part three (and the last part) of the puzzle is here.

You have been sent one million sugar cubes that are inedible. Each cube is just a half inch long, a half inch wide, and a half inch tall.

pile every cube on top of each other one cube thick. How high will the pile be?

This problem is part of the set SUGAR CUBE PUZZLE

Mount Adams (about 12000 feet) a home (25 feet) The Empire State Building (1472 feet) Higher than Mount Everest (over 29000 feet)

Bj Prognome by bj prognome , 46, USA

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1 solution

height of each cube = 0.5 inches

no of cubes = 10^6 cubes

total height = 0.5 X 10^6 = 5 X (10^5) inches

5*(10^5)/12 = 41666.667 feet

Which is higher than Mt Everest

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i gut the right ans bt selected the wrong option'

Siddhesh Patel - 6 years, 10 months ago

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Yup, that happens. Most people actually don't bother to do the math and say "Empire State Building" because they csn't imagine 1000000 sugar cubes could be higher than Mt. Everest.

bj prognome - 6 years, 10 months ago

so did i. :(

Obscure Gilon - 6 years, 10 months ago

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