Question

A shipping container is in the shape of a right rectangular prism with a length of 13 feet, a width of 9 feet, and a height of 4 feet. The container is completely filled with contents that weigh, on average, 0.61 pound per cubic foot. What is the weight of the contents in the container, to the nearest pound?

Answer 1

Weight of container =102pounds

Explaination:

A shipping container is in the shape of right rectangular prism with the length of the 12feet away, the 8.5 and the height of the 4feet.

The container is completely filled with contants that weigh on average 0.25 pounds of the contents of the container .

Right rectangular prism is a cuboid. Volume of Right rectangular prism=12* 8.5* 4 =408

Cubif feet content destiny=0.25pounds per cubic food

Density = Mass/Volume

= 0.25= weight of contents in the container/Volume of container

= 0.25= weight of contents in container/408

= Weight of contents = container

= 0.25* 408

= Weight of container = 102 pounds

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