For Exercises 40 and 41, refer to the following. An ancient measure of length, the cubit, was the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger of a person’s outstretched arm. So the length of a cubit depended on the person, though there was some attempt at standardization. Most estimates place the cubit between 17 and 22 in.
40. According to Genesis 6:15, Noah was to build an ark: “The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.” How does the volume of such an ark compare with that of a U.S. suburban house totaling , with 8-ft ceilings?