SOLUTION: A box has an area of 25m^2, the volume of 200m^3. What is the height of the box?

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Question 762522: A box has an area of 25m^2, the volume of 200m^3. What is the height of the box?
Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


No way to tell. You have a box of general shape, even presuming a rectangular prism, so you have three variables, length, width, and height. But you only have two relationships: surface area and volume. Not enough information.

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