A brick has dimensions of 15 cm x 6.0 cm x 12cm. What is the volume of the brick in cubic meters?

(Recall that 100 cm = 1m)

In order to answer this question, the dimensions of the brick in centimetres need to the converted to dimensions in metres. In order to convert centimetres to metres you need to divide by 100. Doing this yields brick dimensions of 0.15 m x 0.06 m x 0.12 m. Multiplying the length, width and height together yields the volume of 0.00108 cubic metres.