SOLUTION: Carrie, a packaging engineer, is designing a container to hold 12 drinking glasses shaped as regular octagonal prisms. Her initial sketch of the top view of the base of the contain
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Question 1195268: Carrie, a packaging engineer, is designing a container to hold 12 drinking glasses shaped as regular octagonal prisms. Her initial sketch of the top view of the base of the container is shown above. The length is 12 inches and width is 9 inches.
A) If the length and width of the container base in the initial sketch were doubled, at most how many more glasses could the new container hold?
B) Carrie redesigned the container because the initial sketch did not account for cushioning material between the glasses. The area of the base of the newly designed container is 25% greater than the area of the base in the initial sketch. What is the area, in square inches, of the base of the newly designed container?
Answer by Solver92311(821) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Why do you get to look at the initial sketch and we don't?
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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