Question

a manufacturer makes right triangle prisms for refracting light The prisms are packed in boxes that are 12.5 cm wide, 2.5 cm tall, and 22.5 cm long If the bottom row is stacked as shown how many prisms can fit in a box? The dimensions of one prisms are shown.

Answer 1

According to the dimensions of the box, the row already fit the width and the height of the box. But it does not with the length.

The length of each prism is 7.5cm, so this is the length of the rows.

Since the length of the box is 22.5cm, 3 rows of prism will fit in the box:

`(22.5)/(7.5)=3`

Each row has 9 prisms, it means that in total, each box can fit 27 prisms.