3.Building bricks are closely stacked in a pile 7 ft.high,36 ft. long, a.

nd

12 ft.wide. If the bricks are 2 in.by 4 in. by 9 in.,how many bricks are in

the pile?

4. A packing box 2.2 ft. by 4.9 ft. by 5.5 ft.is to be corapletely covered

with tin. How many square feet of the

metal are needed? (Neglect waste for

searms,etc.)

5.How many cubic yards of material

are needed for the: foundation of a barn

40 by 80 ft.,if the foundation is 2 ft. thick

and 12 ft.high?

6. A tank,open at the top,is made of sheet iron 1in.thick. The internal

dinmensions of the tank are 4 ft.8 in. long;3 ft. 6 in. wide;4 ft.4 in.deep. Find

the weight of the tank when empty,and find the weight when full of salt water.

(Salt water weighs 64 Ib. per cu. ft.,and iron is 7.2 times as heavy as salt water.)

7.The edges of a. trunk are 3 ft.,4 ft.,6 ft. A second trunk is twice as

long;the other edges are 3 ft.,4 ft. How do their volumes compare?

&,An eleotrig refrigera.tor is built in the form of a rectangular parallele-

piped. The inside dimensions are 3 ft. by 2.6.ft. by 1.8 ft. A freezing unit

(1.1 ft. by 0.8 ft.by 0.7 ft.)subtracts from the

storageroom of the box. Find the capacity of

the refrigerator.

9. A soli1 concrete porch consists of 3 steps

-11"
情
and a landing. The steps have a tread of i1

m-7"

in.,arise of 7 in.,and a length of 7 ft.;the

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landing is 6 ft. by 7 ft. How rmuch material

was used in its construction?

10.Imagine a block of wood to heasure 2 ft.by 3 ft.by 4 ft. and to have

its total surface area painted blue. Without the aid of a. figure,answer the

following questions:

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(A)How many times must you cut completely through the block to make

cubes which measure 1 ft.on an edge?

(B)How many of the cubes of question (A)will have

(a)Three blue faces?

(b) Two blue faces?

(c)One blue face?

(d)No blue face?-

(C)How many cubes are there in all?

11.Find the length of the diagonal of the parallelepiped conaidered in

Ex.2. Hint. This is the diagonal of the section GBCD.

12.In the figure is shown a rec-

tangular parallelepiped whose dimen-

sions are 2,4,6. Points A,B,C,E

F,and L are each at the midpoint

a.n edge. Find the area of each of the

sections ABER,ABC, and MNL.

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