Question

Mrs. Smith is shopping for a toy chest to go in her kids playroom. She looks at the options below toy chest 1: l:5 W:4 h:2toy chest 2: l:4 W:2 H:4if Mrs. Smith wants to paint toy chest 2 a different color on all sides, how much space will she cover with paint?

Answer 1

We need to compute the area of the toy chest, which is a rectangular prism. This area is calculated as follows:

$A=2(l\cdot w+l\cdot h+w\cdot h)$

where l is length, w is width and h is height

Substituting with l = 4, w = 2, and h = 4, we get:

$\begin{gathered} A=2\cdot(4\cdot2+4\cdot4+2\cdot4) \\ A=2\cdot(8+16+8) \\ A=2\cdot32 \\ A=64 \end{gathered}$

She will cover 64 square units with paint