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Michelle needs to buy some wood to build a rectangular box that is 12 inches long 8 inches wide and 10 inches high and net worth of this box is show how many square inches of wood would Michelle need to buy to build the Box

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Since it’s asking for square inches on a rectangular prism, this is solving for surface area. So we use the following formula:
2(h*w)+2(h*l)+2(w*l)=A

2(10*8)+2(10*12)+2(8*12)
2(80)+2(120)+2(96)
160+240+192
592

592 sq. in.
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