A company makes Japanese-style lunch boxes called bento boxes. Each bento box is a
cube with -foot-long edges. The company ships the bento boxes in a container in the
shape of a rectangular prism that measures ¿ feet by feet by ; feet.
A manager correctly finds the volume of the container using formula. An employee
double-checks the calculation by packing the container full of bento boxes.
Use the drop-down menus to explain how both volume calculations compare.
Click the arrows to choose an answer from each menu.
The manager can find the volume of the container using the formula Chooso...
The employee correctly determines that the container can bo filled with
Choose...
bento boxes. He can find the volume of the container by multiplying the number of bento boxes
that fill the container by the Choose..
of one bento box.
The volume found by using the formula is Choose...
of the volume of the total number
of bento boxes in the container.