Working out cubic volume

[hongman]

How embarassing.

Ok, so I'm shipping some stuff by sea and the freight co charge by cubic metres. Below are the dimensions of each item as given to me by the supplier's warehouse.

I will have 2 of each:

Length: 0.32m
Height: 0.20m
Width: 0.28m

Length: 0.30m
Height: 0.27m
Width: 0.27m

My math isn't what it used to be, apparently.

[B1k3R]

Here (http://www.calculator.net/volume-calculator.html)

[Biker Biggles]

You multiply the length by the width by the height of each item to get the volumne.Then add the results together to get the total.

[hongman]

Thats what I did but kept getting negative values.

Site is playing up for me, but I'll try after dinner!

Thanks

Regards

Stupid.

[Biker Biggles]

Box 1 is 0.1792
Box 2 is 0.2187

If you have two of each you double those numbers and add the result together for the total.

[Sally]

1.792m(cubed) + 2.187m(cubed)

3.979m(cubed)

I worked in cm for the values you gave me inm(cubed), to find a value in cm(cubed), then to get back to m(cubed) you have to divide by (100x100=10000).

Its because the values are >1, they make funny figures, so you have to go up from m(cubed) to cm(cubed) then divide back down.

I think thats right, but wait for someone more knowledgable than me to tell you.

[Sally]

I think I am possibly wrong looking at BB's answer!

[munkygunn182]

Surely volume is simply length x breadth x height

Therefore box 1:

0.32 x 0.2 x 0.28 = 0.01792m^3

box 2:

0.3 x 0.27 x 0.27 = 0.02187m^3


Hopefully we agree on that... seeing as im studying engineering and hopefully not making schoolboy errors!

Yet i find it interesting that there are 3 sets of answers, all the same numbers, but factors of 10 different!

[the_lone_wolf]

Are you shipping them all in separate packages? Placing them all in the same box will leave room left over so the total will be slightly more than the individual boxes combined

That said, the volume of the first item is:

0.32 x 0.20 x 0.28 = 0.01792 cubic metres

Item two:

0.30 x 0.27 x 0.27 = 0.02187 cubic metres

Double the values for two of the same item, add the results for the total

simples...

[MisterTommyH]

How embarassing.

Ok, so I'm shipping some stuff by sea and the freight co charge by cubic metres. Below are the dimensions of each item as given to me by the supplier's warehouse.

I will have 2 of each:

Length: 0.32m
Height: 0.20m
Width: 0.28m

Length: 0.30m
Height: 0.27m
Width: 0.27m

My math isn't what it used to be, apparently.

Box 1 = 0.32m*0.2m*0.28m = 0.01792m^3
Box 2 = 0.3m*0.27m*0.27m = 0.02187m^3

2 Of each box = (2*0.01792)+(2*0.02187) = 0.08m^3 (or 0.07958 if you want to be accurate).

Edit: Factors of 10 catch loads of people out.

[hongman]

Wow

Thank you peeps, 0.8 is close enough to what I need to know.

The boxes will be shipped together in 1 box, but the rate goes up each cubic metre so asking for a quote for 1 cubic metre is close enough for me!

Properly confusing.

[the_lone_wolf]

Properly confusing.

Proper confusing would be asking someone to write an algorithm that would tell you how best to arrange the four packages so that the result fitted into a cuboid of minimum volume...

;)

[hongman]

Now that you mention it...

:D

[MisterTommyH]

I would have thought that even asking for a quote for 0.25m^3 would have been well in.

You'd have to do quite a bit of glueing and balancing to get them to stand up in an arrangement bigger than that.

[hongman]

Yeah. I got a quote before I got the dimensions, (I guessed).

After getting the dimensions I tried to work out if I was close enough to not be too much over, and got all confused! Luckily I think I'll be within tolerance (with the extra padding of an outer box).

[Whyte25]

How embarassing.

Ok, so I'm shipping some stuff by sea and the freight co charge by cubic metres. Below are the dimensions of each item as given to me by the supplier's warehouse.

I will have 2 of each:

Length: 0.32m
Height: 0.20m
Width: 0.28m

Length: 0.30m
Height: 0.27m
Width: 0.27m

My math isn't what it used to be, apparently.


Hi

Just saw this... what is it your shipping? and where? i work for a courier / shipping co so could possibly help out - also what price have they given you?

Also depending on the means of shipping / road / etc the calculations are different.

PM me if you wish.

Rgds

Darren.

[hongman]

PM inc.

[Bluefish]

Wow

Thank you peeps, 0.8 is close enough to what I need to know.

The boxes will be shipped together in 1 box, but the rate goes up each cubic metre so asking for a quote for 1 cubic metre is close enough for me!

Properly confusing.

1 cubic meter is way more than you need, as it adds up to .08m3 not .8m3

[Ed]

1 m^3 would be a helluva big parcel.

Anyway, what's in it?

[Bluefish]

Anyway, what's in it?
Drugs

[Ed]

I wondered. That, or sex toys.

[hongman]

Batterez!

I just measured it out on some paper, albeit in 2D and estimating the depth with a broken ruler at 15cm (all I have access to right now) and maybe it is right, they aren't as big as I imagined.

To cover my ass I'm going to re-confirm the quote, and send the dude those measurements and tell him to work it out and quote accordingly!

[hongman]

Well spotted! -facepalm-

Something doesn't ring right to me though.

1 cubic metre is the same as a cube with 1m sides all the way round right?

I havent seen the goods in person but I cant imagine them fitting into a space a a tenth of the above. 0.8 sounded about right but 0.08 sounds too small. I could be wrong.

My supplier gave me those dimensions without an indication of units, but I took an educated guess at metres.

Just to make things clearer, here is what I am shipping, direct from the manufacturer as opposed to my supplier:

http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=RBC6

http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=RBC7

I'm no good at visualising this stuff, I need to see it. But I cant confirm 100% til I have bought the goods...which I'm not doing until my client confirms the order, based on this shipping quote!

[hongman]

Wow, some lag issues there, my posts went on the wrong way round! Triple post!

[Sally]

UPS Batterie's if I remember rightly?

[MisterTommyH]

0.08m^3 isn't really that small. It's 80,000cm^3. Or a cube 43cm on each side.

Even to have a cube 50cm on each side would only be 0.125m^3.

[hongman]

When you put it like that, sounds much more reasonable!