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Pleaseeeee helppppDetermine how many actual fish food boxes fit in the shipping box. Show your work. Find the volume of the shipping box using the two methods and show your work:Packing cubesUsing the volume formulaExplain how both methods provide the same measurement of volume for the shipping box.

Pleaseeeee helppppDetermine how many actual fish food boxes fit in the shipping box-example-1

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Shipping box is a cube, with units

Fish food is an unitary cube, that means have x,y,z measures the same

Shipping box is a parallelepip box. Rectangular

Volume of shipping box is found by formula

V = X•Y•Z

X = 3ft, Y=3 3/4 ft, Z=3 1/4 ft

then V = (3•3+ 3•3/4)•(3+1/4) = (11 +1/4)• (3+1/4) = 33 + 11/4 + 3/4 + 1/16

V = 33 + 2 + 3/4+ 3/4 +1/16 = 35 + 25/16 = 34+ 9/16

Now, find volume using packing cubes

How many fish food boxes fit

In X direction it fits 3/(1/4) = 12

In Y direction it fits (3+3/4)/(1/4)= 15

In Z direction it fits (3+1/4)/(1/4) = 10

Now then multiply 12x15x10= 1800 fish boxes fit in larger box

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