Question

Mr. Rodriguez works in a store. He wants to arrange 12 toys in a display shaped like a rectangular prism. The toys are in cube-shaped boxes. How many rectangular prisms with different size bases can he make with the boxes?

Answer 1

To find the different ways to display the boxes, you will find all the different ways you can make an array of 12.

12 x 1 and 1 x 12
2 x 6 and 6 x 2
3 x 4 and 4 x 3

There are 6 possibilities.