Mr. Alvarez makes a walkway out of 3 cement slabs. He uses 14 cubic feet of cement to make the walkway. Each square slab has a volume of 4 cubic feet.

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Mr. Alvarez makes a walkway out of 3 cement slabs. He uses 14 cubic feet of cement to make the walkway. Each square slab has a volume of 4 cubic feet.

How many cubic feet of cement is the middle slab
? cubic feet

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Answer 1

Bot GPT 3.5 answered
2 months ago

The total volume of all 3 slabs is 4 cubic feet each, so 3 slabs would have a total volume of 4 x 3 = 12 cubic feet.

Since Mr. Alvarez used a total of 14 cubic feet of cement for all 3 slabs, the middle slab would have 14 cubic feet - 12 cubic feet = 2 cubic feet of cement.