A commercial building was a nice downtown two story structure. This particular building had ground measurements of 46 feet by 80 feet. The height of the first story of this building was 16 feet. The height of the second story of the building was 14 feet. The contractor estimated the cost of reproduction of the building to be 8 dollars per cubic foot for the first story and 6 dollars per cubic foot for the second story.
What was the contractors estimated cost to reproduce the building, based on the measurements ?
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A. 780,160 dollars
First, multiply 46 times 80 times 16 to get 58,880 cubic feet.
Now we multiply 58,880 times 8 dollars to get 471,040 dollars
Next, let's multiply 46 times 80 times 14 to get 51,520 cubic feet.
And again we multiply 51,520 times 6 dollars to get 309,120 dollars.
Add 309,120 and 471,040 to get a total of 780,160 dollars.
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