Since your little brother loves cereal you decide to give him his favorite cereal cinnamon toast crunch as a surprise present.

There is only one square sheet of wrapping paper that measures 60 cm wide and 60 cm long.

The measurements at the cereal box are 30 cm X 40 cm x 5cm

Do you have enough wrapping paper to wrap the cereal box?

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Katherine

Mathematics

1 April, 02:08

Since your little brother loves cereal you decide to give him his favorite cereal cinnamon toast crunch as a surprise present.

There is only one square sheet of wrapping paper that measures 60 cm wide and 60 cm long.

The measurements at the cereal box are 30 cm X 40 cm x 5cm

Do you have enough wrapping paper to wrap the cereal box?

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Tucker Newton · Answer 1

oops answer is in the comments ... there are two sides of the box that have a match. so take the area 60*60 and subtract (2 * (30*40) + (30*5) * 2) enough paper!