Given: A box with a square base and volume of 1200 cubic inches
To Determine: The dimension of the box
Solution
The box has a shape of a rectangular prism.
The volume of a box can calculated by the formula below
The area of the box is the addition of the area of the top and the bottom and the 4 sides
The top and the bottom are square in shape and the sides have the shape of a rectangle
Therefore, the area of the top and and bottom is
Since h is same, therefore
Hence, the dimension of the box are 16.87 inches by 16.87 inches by 4.22 inches