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PSAT 1.7 Math Narrative Walkthrough. How tall would the boxes have to be?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop too sure

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brought to you by cardboard boxes as the great kenny

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rogers once said campbell you gotta know how to fold

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some cardboard boxes It's old boxes dance mother gives him

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a room clinton ultimatum and he ends up cleaning five

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hundred cubic feet of junk out of his room If

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dan wants to take out all the junk in on

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ly five identical boxes that have a base of five

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feet squared how tall would the boxes have to be

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and hear the potential answers All right dan is awfully

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particular about his garbage It's garbage Dan what do you

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care What size boxes there in it's Not like you're

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giving it away for christmas Laura are you all right

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So there's five hundred cubic feet of garbage And dan

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wants back all this trash away in five identical boxes

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Well the math there is pretty easy Each box will

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have to contain five hundred divided by five or one

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hundred cubic feet of well crap hole up from here

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though We'll need to use one of our trusty formulas

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In this case the one for a rectangular prison A

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box volume equals length times With times height equals lula

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all right We're not seeing any length or with measurements

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in the original problem but it does tell us that

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the base has an area of five square feet and

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we hopefully recognize that the area is the same as

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length times width So there are two pieces of our

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formula right there since all we're missing now is the

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height we can plug in chuck by substituting one hundred

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for the volume and five for length times With that

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leaves us with one hundred equals five times the height

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And when we divide both sides by five we get

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h equals twenty answer Choice Be wow twenty foot tall

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boxes Good luck getting your friendly sanitation workers to take

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those away on garbage day Dan In fact you'll be

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lucky if you still have a mailbox on thursday morning

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