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A warehouse is 64 yards​ long, 28 yards​ wide, and 8 yards high. What is the area of the warehouse​ floor? If the warehouse is filled to half its height with tightly packed​ boxes, what is the volume of the​ boxes?

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Warehouse details:

64 yds long

28 yds wide

8 yds high

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What is the area of the warehouse​ floor?

the base of the warehouse is 64*28

which is 1792 yds squared

1792 yards squared

If the warehouse is filled to half its height with tightly packed​ boxes, what is the volume of the​ boxes?

half the height of the warehouse is 8/2=

4 yards

the volue of half the warehouse is

1792 * 4 = 7168 yds squared

I'm not quite sure how they want me to answer this but this is all that I got

(this part below can't be trusted)

either the boxes can be 1x1x1 which means 7168 boxes will fit

either the boxes can be 2x2x2 which means 896 boxes will fit

either the boxes can be 3x3x3 which means 265.481481 boxes will fit, which is definetly not it because they said "filled...tightly packed boxes".

plus, we don't know if the boxes are square or rectangle so I'm not sure

User Jake Evans
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The volume should be 7168 yards

The area for the floor should be 14,336 yards

User Abhilash D K
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