Question

a company makes wax candles shaped like rectangular prisms. each candle is 4 cm long,3 cm wide, and 10cm tall. If the company used 4080 cm^3 of wax how many candles did they make

Answer 1

First, lets find the volume of a single candle:

now that we have the volume of one candle,we can divide the total wax to find how many candles the company can make:

`(4080)/(120)=34`

therefore, the company made 34 candles