Question

Hanna made a wooden box to store her garden tools. It had two chambers shaped as rectangular prisms with a lid on each as shown below.
What is the total volume of Hanna’s garden tool box?

Answer 1

are you KingGeorge?

Answer 2

oh your eyust707

Answer 3

nice to meet ya

Answer 4

k

Answer 5

So the main idea here is we need to break it up into two "rectangular boxes"

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or "rectangular prisms"

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k

Answer 8

lwh?

Answer 9

yes!
volume of a rectangular prism = l * w * h

Answer 10

The problem just looks nasty...

Answer 11

its not that bad i promise

Answer 12

I trust ya

Answer 13

but that shape is weird so we cant find the volume of it directly..

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but we can break it up into two different volumes!

Answer 15

so...

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8 is the width, right?

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ohh.....!