SOLUTION: The length and the width of a rectangular parallelepiped are 20m and 30m.Knowing that the total area is 6200m² calculate the height of the box and measure the volume.

Question 1185379: The length and the width of a rectangular parallelepiped are 20m and 30m.Knowing that the total area is 6200m² calculate the height of the box and measure the volume.

Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let the height be x.

The surface area of 6200m^2 consists of two faces of x by 20, two of x by 30, and two of 20 by 30:

The height is 50m; then the volume (in m^3) is length times width times height.

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