To find: What should the dimensions of the sculpture be?
Length:
Width:
Height:
Given information:
You have 240 cubic inches of clay with which to make a sculpture shaped as a rectangular prism. You want the width to be 4 inches less than the length and the height to be 2 inches more than 3 times the length.
Formula used:
Volume of rectangular prism is length times width times the height of the prism.
Calculation:
The length of the cuboid would be
Since volume is 240 cubic inches, so use
To find the value of x , graph the volume function on a graphing calculator.
It is visible that the graph crosses the x -axis at
Width of the prism would be:
Height of the prism would be:
Therefore, the dimensions of the prism will be about
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