By

Harjeet Bakshi
K.V.TagoreGarden

All of you know about 3-dimenstion figures
Can you name one of them?
cube
How many cubes of side 1 cm will
make a cube of side 2 cm?
Number of cubes=8
8 2 2 2
8 2
3

How many cubes of side 1 cm will make a

cube of side 3 cm?
Number of cubes=27
27 3 3 3
27 3
3

Consider the numbers

1, 8, 27, ...
These are called perfect
cubes or cube numbers.
How many perfect cubes are there from 1 to 100?
1,8,27,64
How many perfect cubes are
there from 1 to 1000?
Is 216 a perfect cube?
By prime factorisation, 216 = 2 2 2 3 3 3
216 = 2
3
3
3
= (2 3)
3
Cubes and cube roots


What are the volumes of the two cubes below ?
8cm
4cm
Cubes and cube roots

Suppose now that you were told the volume of a
cube and you were asked to find the length of
the side of the cube.
For example , the cube shown has a volume of
216cm
3
, what is the length of the side of the
cube?



216=6x6x6
Therefore side of the cube is 6cm.
8 2
3

27 3
3

Cube Root Vocabulary

n
x
index
radicand
radical sign
Examples:
3
4 4 4 4 64
4 64
3

because
64 4 4 4 4
3

because
3
64 4
Cube root through prime factorisation method
Consider 3375
3375 = 3 3 3 5 5 5 = 3
3
5
3
= (3 5)
3
Thank You