Capacity

If you're trying to find capacity, such as how many square cubic yards are in such and such box, you must do the following.


Say the box, - which will always be three dimensional - two faces of 16 cubic units, and the rest of 12 cubic units, you'd understand the base should be 4x3, right? So, now, let's find the cubic units in all!

Remember,

Length x Width x Height = Your number!

So, the 4x3 tells us that we have the length, 4, and the width, 3.

Now to find the height.

First, you remember, it's 12 and 16. It's vertical, so it's not 3 high. It's 4 high! Time to multiply...

(4x3)x4= 48.

48 cubic units!