A sphere is inscribed in a unit cube. A smaller cube is then inscribed within the sphere. What is the side length of the smaller cube?
+23246 The diameter of the sphere will be 1.
The inscribed cube will have a distance from one vertex to its opposite vertex the same as the diameter of the sphere,
so this distance is also 1.
If the inner cube has each dimenstion called 'x', the distance from one vertex to its opposite vertex can be found
by using this equation: d2 = l2 + w2 + h2 or d2 = x2 + x2 + x2
Since d = 1 12 = 3x2
1 = 3x2
x2 = 1/3
x = sqrt(1/3) or sqrt(3) / 3
