Download FW QUIZ 1 1. A tissue box is a rectangular prism

FW QUIZ 1
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1. A tissue box is a rectangular prism 9 inches long, 5 inches wide, and 2 inches tall.
a. What is its volume?
b. What is its surface area?
2. A tissue box for a giant is 5 times the size of the above tissue box.
a. What is its volume?
b. What is its surface area?
a. How many times greater is the volume of the giant's tissue box than the one above?
b. How many times greater is the surface area of the giant's tissue box than the one above?
3. What did you discover in question 2 about the change in volume and surface area of the
objects, when an object's dimensions are all multiplied by the same number?
4. Which of the following tissue boxes has the greatest surface area? Which has the least?
Sketch a picture of two of them, and find the surface area of these two.
36in. x lin. x lin.
12in. x 3in. x lin.
9in. x 4in. x lin.
6in. x 6in. x lin.
9in. x 2in. x 2in.
6in. x 3in. x 2in.
4in. x 3in. x 3in.
5. a. If you were asked to create a box for a product that had a given volume, and you were asked to
conserve cardboard, what shape would you try to get close to?
b. Would the dimensions of the box have numbers that were close together or farther apart? ~