You are hired to help minimize production costs. Your job is to choose the form of packaging for a new product from the five choices below. The package must hold at least 1000 cubic inches. The cost of the cardboard for the packaging is $0.03 per square inch.

Your project should include the volume, total surface area, and materials cost for each solid given below, including the formulas you used and each step of your work. Make sure to use the formulas given in your lessons and round your answers to the nearest hundredth.

Solid 1: Square Prism with each side of the base equal to 10 in.

Question

You are hired to help minimize production costs. Your job is to choose the form of packaging for a new product from the five choices below. The package must hold at least 1000 cubic inches. The cost of the cardboard for the packaging is $0.03 per square inch. 

Your project should include the volume, total surface area, and materials cost for each solid given below, including the formulas you used and each step of your work. Make sure to use the formulas given in your lessons and round your answers to the nearest hundredth. 

Solid 1: Square Prism with each side of the base equal to 10 in.

dumbcow · Answer

surface area of prism = 2lw+2lh+2wh
l=w=h = 10