ACTIVITY 3
You are a worker at a sanitizing company. You were instructed to package 9 bottles of hand sanitizers per box, 30 cm by 30 cm by 30 cm in dimensions. They will be delivered in Kingston.
1) What is the volume of one of the boxes which will be used to store the hand sanitizers? _________________________ _____________________________________________
2) If you plan to secure each edge with a piece of tape, how many pieces of tapes are needed? ____________________ ______________________________________________
3) You plan to write the name of the product on all the faces of the box. How many times will the product›s name be written? ________________________________________ ___________________________________ A truck has arrived. The length, width and height of its storage compartment are 400 cm, 150 cm and 300 cm respectively. You have stored the products in 500 boxes; ready to be loaded on the truck.
PART B
4) How many sanitizers were packaged and ready for distribution? _____________________________________ ______________________________________
5) How many boxes will be able to be stacked on each other in the truck? _____________________________________ ______________________________________________
6) How many boxes will be able to fit along the width of the truck? _________________________________________ _____________________________________________
7) What is the maximum number of whole boxes that are able to fit along the length of the truck? ________________ ______________________________________________ _____________________________________________
8) What is the maximum number of boxes that this truck can transport? ______________________________________ ______________________________________________
9) Do you think we need another truck? Say why. _________ ______________________________________________ _____________________________________________
PART C STORAGE OF BOXES
If 60 boxes could be stacked in a storage room as follow: 4 rows, 5 columns and 3 levels (4 x 5 x 3=60):
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Terral Christian is on the staff of Swallowfield Primary and Junior High School - E-mail: terralchristian@yahoo.com