You have been hired by the "Building Boxes" packaging company to design a box in the shape of a rectangular prism. The box will be made from an 8.5-inch by 11-inch rectangle by cutting a square from each corner and then folding up the sides of the box. ...

The 2-d shape created by the green line when the net ABCDEF is folded would be a square, because.... When BCDE sides are folded , they will create the top, left side, bottom and right side of a cube. A and F will be the front and back. Since ABCDEF ...

First I look for a common multiple of 5, 6 and 10. That would be 30. Then I convert all the fractions to equivalent forms with a common denominator: 1/5 dimes = 6/30 dimes. 1/6 nickels = 5/30 nickels, 1/10 quarters = 3/30 quarters. This means 6/30 ...