elliot is calculating the volume of a rectangular prism. The volume of the base is 12 cubic centimeters. If the prism has a height of 3 centimeters, what is the volume?

Answer 1

"The volume of the base is 12 cubic centimeters" is a nonsense sentence, since the base would have area, not volume.
volume of a rectangular prism, (think of a simple box)
= (area of base) x height

Once you decide who is who in this problem, plug in the correct data
values into the equation.