Question
Which rectangular prism do you think will a greater volume? Find the volume of each prism and find how much greater is the volume of the box.
Answer
In order to find the volume of a rectangular prism, you will need to multiply the length, width, and height of a rectangular prism to get the volume or answer.
Let's solve the volume of the two boxes!
Box A
- [tex]\large \tt {V = L\: \times \:W\: \times H }[/tex]
- [tex]\large \tt {V = 10\times \:4 \times\: 6 }[/tex]
- [tex]\large \tt\underline {V = 240\:in^{3} }[/tex]
Box B
- [tex]\large \tt {V = L\: \times \:W\: \times H }[/tex]
- [tex]\large \tt {V =8\times \:5\times\: 12 }[/tex]
- [tex]\large \tt\underline {V = 480\:in^{3} }[/tex]
∵The volume of box A is 240 and the volume of box B is 480, since 480 is greater than 280.Therefore, box B has a greater volume than box A.
