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Try It Out -- Chapter 11, Lesson 4: Solve Problems by Making a Model


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Carson is making chocolate-covered bars. The surface area of the bars will determine how much chocolate he needs. Each bar is a rectangular prism 6 cm by 2 cm by 1 cm. What is the surface area of a bar?

Order the steps of Carson’s solution.

a.
He sums the areas of the faces.
b.
He calculates the area of each face of the model.
c.
He makes a model of a bar using centimetre cubes. The model is a rectangular prism.
 

 1. 
What is Carson’s first step?
 

 2. 
What is his second step?
 

 3. 
What is his third step?
 

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 4. 
How many square centimetre cubes does Carson need to make his model?

 

 5. 
What is the volume of the model?  ______ cm3

 

 6. 
What is the surface area of the model?  ______ cm2

 



 
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