Question

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A candy bar box is in the shape of a triangular prism. The volume of the box is 1,200 cubic centimeters.

A triangular prism is shown with base of triangle labeled 10 cm, sides of the triangles labeled 13 cm, and length of the box equal to 20 cm.

Part A: What is the height of the base? Show your work. (5 points)

Part B: What is the approximate amount of cardboard used to make the candy box? Explain how you got your answer.

Answer 1

60 Area260

Answer 2

Using the Pythagorean Theorem we split the base in 2 which gives us 5 and we start the process 5^2+x^2=13^2 25+x^2=169 -25+x^2=169-25 x^2=144 take the square root of both sides and we get 12 as the height. Doing b*h/2 to get the area of the triangular sides we get 12*10=120/2 we get 60 as the amount of cardboard they need to use. For the other side, we use l*w=A to get 260. Hope this helps! :D

Answer 3

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Using the Pythagorean Theorem we split the base in 2 which gives us 5 and we start the process 5^2+x^2=13^2 25+x^2=169 -25+x^2=169-25 x^2=144 take the square root of both sides and we get 12 as the height. Doing b*h/2 to get the area of the triangular sides we get 12*10=120/2 we get 60 as the amount of cardboard they need to use. For the other side, we use l*w=A to get 260. Hope this helps! :D
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Answer 4

No problem