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  1. pete

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    How many Cubic meters in a square meter?
     
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    I failed O level maths three times but I don't think that question makes sense @pete :scratch:
     
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      1 :noidea:. Isn't a square meter one side of a cubic meter :scratch: I am getting me confused now
       
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          I thought a square meter was flat and a cubic meter was cubic ... so not flat .... therefore you can't have a cubic meter in a square meter,

          Are you sure the wording is correct @pete ?
           
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            Did you look at the link Michael?
            There must be something there that I'm missing.
             
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            I did but I don't understand it ...
            I can't see how a cube can go into a square. A cube has 6 sides and a square is flat.
            I was never any good with maths, I'm better at growing cacti :dbgrtmb:
             
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              Why are you asking anyway, is it something to do with your garden ?
               
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              I didn't understand it either.
              At first I thought it was to calculate how many cubic meters you would need to cover a square meter at a certain thickness.
              But I cant see any thickness stated.
               
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              No, I just thought I was being stupid as I couldn't understand it.:scratch:
               
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              If you wanted to cover a square meter you'd have to know the thickness e.g. if a hole was one meter square you'd have to know how deep it was as well.
              I can't really understand it ...
              Maybe someone will :smile:
               
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              Well a square metre is a measure of area ie 2 dimensional. A cubic meter is a measure of volume, 3D. Pretty obvious. The two units have no relationship, what are you trying to do?
               
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                Oh my head hurts just thinking about the answer:old:
                 
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                  Square metre is surface area, if you covered a square meter with a cubic metre, then you will have a thickness of 1 metre.
                   
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                    A cubic metre will not cover a surface any bigger than a square meter but it will have the extra dimension. Of course, if you take it one step further you will have a Tesseract. :thumbsup: :roflol:
                     
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