Homework Help: math

Posted by joe on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 4:20pm.

if a rectnagular prism has a height of h, the, width of the prism is six less than h and the length of the prism is one fourth of the length, find an equation for the volume of the rectangular prism in therms of h

math - drwls, Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 5:40pm
How can the length be one fourth of the length? (Unless both are zero?)

You evidently copied the problem incorrectly. The length is either 1/4 of the width or 1/4 of the height.

Figure out which it is and write an expression for height*width*length in terms of h.

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