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Answer:

192.7 cm³

Explanation:

You want the volume of a regular pentagonal prism with a base side length of 4 cm and a height of 7 cm.

Base area

The area of a regular n-gon is given by the formula ...

A = n·s²/(4·tan(180°/n))

For n=5 and s=4 cm, the area of the prism base is ...

A = 5·(4 cm)²/(4·tan(36°)) = 20/tan(36°) cm² ≈ 27.528 cm²

Volume

The volume of a prism is ...

V = Bh

where B is the base area, and h is the height. Here, we have h=7 cm, so the volume is ...

V = (27.528 cm²)(7 cm) ≈ 192.7 cm³

The volume of the interior of the box is about 192.7 cm³.

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