Question
A company produces cardboard boxes with the top, bottom and sides measuring 5 feet. It costs the company 4 cents a square foot to make each box. The square footage is determined by finding the area of all six sides of the box. Find the cost to make 100 boxes.
Answers
Martin
A side has 5x5=25 square feet.
A box has 6 sides.
6 x 25 = 150 square feet.
4 cents per foot :
150 x 4 = 600 cents = $6 per boxes
100 boxes : 6 x 100 = 600$ total.
Those are some costly boxes. Then again, they are very big boxes.
A box has 6 sides.
6 x 25 = 150 square feet.
4 cents per foot :
150 x 4 = 600 cents = $6 per boxes
100 boxes : 6 x 100 = 600$ total.
Those are some costly boxes. Then again, they are very big boxes.