Question

7. Tina's mother always purchases the family size box of her favorite cinnamon breakfast cereal.The family size box has a height of 14 inches, a length of 8 inches, and a width of 4 inch.lUnfortunately, the store only had medium boxes of Tina's favorite cereal. The dimensions arehalf the size of the family size box of cereal. What is the difference in the volume of the boxesof cereal?

Answer 1

Given:

A statement is given

Required:

What is the difference in the volume of the boxes

of cereal?

Explanation:

The family size box has a height of 14 inches, a lenght of 8 inches, and a width of 4 inches

So the volume of family size is

$V_1=14\times8\times4=448inches^3$

Becausr the dimensions are half the size of family size

box of cereal is the combination of volume

So the medium box has a height of 7 inches, length 4 inches, width 2 inches

volume

$V_2=7\times4\times2=56inches^3$

So the volume of family size box of cereal is layer than that of the medium box. The volume of family of family size base is eight times the volume of medium box. That is

the different in the volume of boxes of cereal

Required answer:

Above explanation