SOLUTION: Janet wants to wrap her friends birthday present with a diameter of 12cm by 27cm by 34cm. If she left 42cm for the boy, how much ribbon would she need altogether?

Question 1102177: Janet wants to wrap her friends birthday present with a diameter of 12cm by 27cm by 34cm. If she left 42cm for the boy, how much ribbon would she need altogether?
Answer by greenestamps(13215) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The dimensions are 12x27x34 (not diameter).
And she left 42cm for the bow, not the boy.
Clarity is very useful when you are trying to get help with a problem....

So the package is a rectangular box.

But there are many different ways to wrap a ribbon around a box. You need to specify in the statement of the problem how the ribbon is wrapped.
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