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Carol has a box with a length, width, and height of 12 inches. She needs a box that is 3 inches longer, not as high, yet still has almost exactly the same volume.
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Carol has a box with a length, width, and height of 12 inches. She needs a box that is 3 inches longer, not as high, yet still has almost exactly the same volume.
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Question 175744: Please help.
Carol has a box with a length, width, and height of 12 inches. She needs a box that is 3 inches longer, not as high, yet still has almost exactly the same volume.
a. What is the volume of the box she has now?
b. What are the dimensions of the new box?
c. What is the volume of the new box?
Thank You. Please explain your answer.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! a.) Volume of a cube with side s.
The box has 1728 cubic inches of volume.
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b.) Length=15 (12+3),Height<12, Width is unspecified.
The volume for this box would be
If H is less than 12, then
There is not enough information to complete the problem.
The height and width are allowed to vary, but should follow
to achieve the same volume as before.
Are the width and height supposed to be the same?
