A company packs each new telescope in its own rectangular box. Then, the company packs those boxes into larger rectangular boxes to ship to customers.

Two boxes.Short description, Two boxes.,Long description,
The measurements for a telescope box and a shipping box are shown.

The telescope box is a rectangular prism that is 18 inches long, 3 inches wide, and 3 inches tall.
The shipping box is a rectangular prism that is 21 inches long, 16 inches wide, and 8 inches tall.

Question 1
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What is the greatest number of telescope boxes that can be shipped in one shipping box?

Question 1 Response area with 1 text input box
telescope boxes
Question 2
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Once the shipping box is packed with as many telescope boxes as possible, the company fills the rest of the space with packing materials to protect the telescopes.



What volume of packing materials is needed to fill each shipping box?

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inches cubed