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A shipping crate contains 576 boxes of cereal. you open the top of the crate and you count 12 boxes across the front and 6 along a side. How many layers of cereal boxes are in the crate?

User Jon Warren
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ok so there is 12 boxes by 6 boxes per layer
so that is 72 boxes per layer
the crate has 576 boxes
therefore
576/72
and the answer is
8 layersi hope it helped you :-}


User ZontarZon
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There are 8 layers in the crate!
Our volume is 576 units, or cereal boxes. 576 = 12 × 6 × UNKNOWN.
We can find our unknown number by dividing:
576 ÷ 12 ÷ 6 = 8 layers!
I hope this explained it!
User Davidpauljunior
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