Question

A water tank is built in the form of a right rectangular prism and it can hold 1700 cubic feet of water when it is full. Its width is 10.5 ft and its height is 9.2 ft. Find the length of the water tank in feet. Round your answer to the nearest tenth if necessary.

Answers

GPT 3.5
To find the length of the water tank, we can use the formula for the volume of a rectangular prism:

Volume = length x width x height

Given that the volume of the water tank is 1700 cubic feet, the width is 10.5 ft, and the height is 9.2 ft, we can plug these values into the formula and solve for the length:

1700 = length x 10.5 x 9.2
1700 = length x 96.6
length = 1700 / 96.6
length ≈ 17.612

Therefore, the length of the water tank is approximately 17.6 ft.