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Thank you We sneak in surface area of a cube

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Flashman Harold the hobo would like to cover his new

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box while he sleeps at night So no one sees

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it and tries to steal it Heralds not the smartest

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knife in the drawer But man he sure wishes he

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had a drawer Assuming harold knows the volume of the

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cube is one thousand seven hundred twenty eight miller leaders

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How much material will he need to make a perfect

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fitting box Cozy waken Use the cubes volume to help

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harold figure out its surface area And here our choices

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Where's there Well first let's break down that box We

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can start by working backwards way Know that the volume

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of our cube is one thousand seven hundred twenty eight

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Volume is length times with times height Lucky for us

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all in the same length in a cube while they

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find volume we can raise length with or height to

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the third power Or cubitt always simply need to take

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the cube root of the volume The cube root of

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one thousand seven hundred twenty eight is twelve This wealth

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and focus Well there's our length with and height now

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Let's find the surface area of one side well multiply

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the boxes with by its height right so that's just

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twelve times twelve which is one hundred forty four How

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many sides are there again harold Yes six of them

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so one hundred forty four times six eight hundred sixty

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four And choice you're the winner Now harold has enough

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material to hide his home Leave tight harold don't let 00:01:31.72 --> [endTime] the literal bedbugs bite No