Box Folding: Organizing
the Data
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Print out this page and fill in the table.
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- How is the length changing?
- How is the width changing?
- The height?
- Volume?
- Surface area?
- Which box has the largest volume?
Use a spreadsheet to make a graph of the data. Here's an
example in MS Excel.
Now let's kick it up a notch with
a simulation .