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cheater101
Jul 27, 2012, 08:03 AM
Antarctica is roughly semicircular, with a radius of 2000 km (Fig. 1-5). The average thickness of its ice cover is 3000 m. How many cubic centimeters of ice does Antarctica contain? (Ignore the curvature of Earth.)

Unknown008
Jul 27, 2012, 08:04 AM
And... what did you try?

cheater101
Jul 27, 2012, 08:05 AM
12000000000 km/m2

Unknown008
Jul 27, 2012, 08:08 AM
How did you come to that number?

Plus that's not the correct unit.

cheater101
Jul 27, 2012, 08:11 AM
Base time height

Unknown008
Jul 27, 2012, 08:12 AM
Okay, what base did you take? And how did you get the value of the base?