SOLUTION: A company produces cardboard boxes with the top, bottom and sides measuring 5 feet.It costs the company 4 cents a square foot to make each box. The square footage is determine

Question 556979: A company produces cardboard boxes with the top, bottom and sides measuring 5 feet.It costs the company 4 cents a square foot to make each box. The square footage is determined by finding the area of all six sides of the box. Find the cost to make 100 boxes.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Each side is ft2
The area of 6 sides is ft2
The area for 100 boxes is ft2
( 4 cents / ft2 ) x ( total ft2 ) =
It costs $600 to make 100 boxes

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