Question

Ryan finds that the volume of a rectangular box is 4080 cubic centimeters. The length of the box is 15 centimeters and the height is 17 centimeters, find the width of the box

Answer 1

The colume of a rectangular box (rectangular prism) is given by the next formula:

$V=l\cdot w\cdot h$

As you need to fidn the width, solve w in that formula:

$w=\frac{V}{l\cdot h}$

Use the given measures and calculate the width:

$\begin{gathered} w=\frac{4080cm^3}{15\operatorname{cm}\cdot17\operatorname{cm}} \\ \\ =\frac{4080cm^3}{255cm^2} \\ \\ =16\operatorname{cm} \end{gathered}$Then, the width of the rectangular box is 16 centimeters