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SportsBounceCo makes only boxes that have sides that are measured in whole inches, like the boxes you have been describing so far. Is it possible for them to produce a box that has a surface area that is not a whole number?

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No

Step-by-step explanation:

Look at the surface area of the box formular : S = 2lw + 2lh + 2wh

When l : length. w: with and h: hight

As we often considered strange, you can always multiply a whole number by a whole number and always get a whole number, and there is no decimal number about the 3 dementions like the boxes you have been describing so far. So It is impossible.

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