Y by samrocksnature
Josée has a small cubic bottle of
centimeters per side containing precious liquid that a merchant wants to buy from him. To fix the price, the merchant claims that the bottle is two-thirds full because if we place it so that a large diagonal of the cube (for example
in the figure) to be perpendicular to the ground, there is liquid up to two-thirds of that diagonal. In order to find out if Josée has an interest in accepting this interpretation, find the fraction of the volume of the vial that the liquid actually represents.




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