Question

-15 POINTS- A company makes wax candles shaped like rectangular prisms. Each candle is 5cm long, 4cm wide, and 12cm tall. If the company used 3840 cm³ of wax, how many candles did they make?

Answer 1

16

Explanation:

We need to find out the area of each candle. We can do this by multiplying all the lengths out and getting 240
`cm^3` per candle. Now we divide 3840, the total amount of wax used, by 240 the amound needed for one candle, and we get 16. This means 16 candles were made.

Answer 2

16 candles

Explanation:

first you must know what the volume of the rec prism is so multiply the b*h*w and you will have 240. divide 3840 by 240 and you will have 16