What is the width of a rectangular prism when the surface area is 208 square centimeters, and it has a height of 8 and a depth of 6?
1 Answer
May 21, 2018
The width is
Explanation:
Use the surface area formula of a rectangular prism to find the width. (I have changed it to use the same terms given in the problem).
Because of the given information, it is known that:
The width is not know, so let it keep it's variable
Use the distributive property to solve the right side of the equal sign:
The width is