Sally has 3 planting boxes . Each box is 4 feet wide and 8 feet long. How much space does she have altogether? Is it 3x4 + 3x8= 36 total feet?
You need to find the area of each box.
Multiply the length by the width.
Then multiply by 3.
the volume of each box is 32 square feet then multiply by number of boxes - 96
To calculate the total space Sally has with her planting boxes, we need to find the area of each box and then add them together.
The area of a rectangle is calculated by multiplying its length by its width. In this case, each box is 4 feet wide and 8 feet long.
For the first box, the area is 4 feet (width) multiplied by 8 feet (length), which equals 32 square feet.
Since Sally has 3 boxes, we need to multiply the area of one box by 3. Therefore, we multiply 32 square feet by 3, resulting in a total of 96 square feet.
So, Sally has a total of 96 square feet of space in her planting boxes, not 36 as you calculated.