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1. A chocolate company sells chocolates in different sizes and packaging
shapcs. The packages below are in the shape of triangular prisms, where
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a. How many square inches of cardboard are needed to make the smaller
package?
b. How many square inches of cardboard are needed to make the larger
package?
c. How many cubic inches of chocolate will the smaller package hold?
d. How many cubic inches of chocolate will the larger package hold?
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e. Suppose the smaller package sells for $2. What should be the price
of the larger package if the company wants to base the price on the
amount of chocolate the package will hold?
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f. Suppose other possible packages are prisms with lateral faces that are
the same size as those of the original smaller package (4 inches by 8.25
inches). What package shape would hold more chocolate than the
original smaller package? (
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2. In Japan. growers have developed ways of growing watermelon
tit into small refrigerators.
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Suppose you cut one of these watermelon cubes open using only one cut.
Which two-dimensional shapes would you see on the cut faces? Explain
your answer
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