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This page is open to all but is specifically for students of MidMath using the text Pre-Algebra by Hal Oberholzer copyright 1994 by Bob Jones University Press. All links are coordinated with the sections of the listed text. Students are encouraged to make helpful suggestions that would improve the usefulness of this page. If you are attempting the Problem Challenge, be sure to include all your work with the solution.

The areas of the top, side, and front of a rectangular box are known. The top is 112 cm squared, the front is 84 cm squared, and the side is 48 cm squared.

a) What are the dimensions (length, width & height) of the box,

b) What is the volume of the box?

You should:
be neat, orderly, and legible
show your work
explain what you did

This problem will be changed on a weekly basis as appropriate with the solution being made available the day after a new problem is posted and the old problem is removed.