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From a rectangular sheet of paper Evan makes a small open rectangular prism by cutting four congruent squares from each corner and taping the sides together. The final prism will have a 5 cm * 4 cm base.Its volume is 60 cm.


What is the area of the original piece of paper?


PLEASE HELP ME.. THANK YOUU :)

hayharbr2011-03-24T18:45:15Z

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Volume = area of base x height so 60 = 20h; h = 3 cm which means 3 cm was cut off each end of the 5 and 4, so it was originally (5+3+3) by (4+3+3) = 11 cm by 10 cm; use that to get its area

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Anonymous2011-03-25T01:44:31Z

60/20 = 3

8 by 7 cm

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