SOLUTION: A square box can store 2940 cylindrical cans. Each can occupies 15 square centimeters. What is the length of the box?
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Question 1096454: A square box can store 2940 cylindrical cans. Each can occupies 15 square centimeters. What is the length of the box?
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If each can uses up of the surface of the bottom of the box,
the surface area of the bottom of the box is
The surface area of a square (like the bottom of the box)
is the square of the length of a side,
so the length of a side of that square-bottom box is
.
Without using a calculator, I can tell that it is , because
.
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