Question

-15 POINTS- A company makes wax candles shaped like rectangular prisms. Each candle is 5cm long, 4cm wide, and 12cm tall. If the company used 3840 cm³ of wax, how many candles did they make?

Answer 1

Answer:

16 candles

Step-by-step explanation:

first you must know what the volume of the rec prism is so multiply the b*h*w and you will have 240. divide 3840 by 240 and you will have 16

Answer 2

Answer:

16

Step-by-step explanation:

We need to find out the area of each candle. We can do this by multiplying all the lengths out and getting 240 $cm^3$ per candle. Now we divide 3840, the total amount of wax used, by 240 the amound needed for one candle, and we get 16. This means 16 candles were made.