The Snack Company is releasing a new bite-size trail mix snack bar that will come individually wrapped in a box. The company wants to show an actual-size picture of the bar on the outside of the box. The image shows the actual-size dimensions of each snack item. What is the area that the picture will take up on the box? Assume the cellophane wrappers fan out in a triangular shape. Write your answer in decimal form and round the answer to the nearest tenth. (1 point) in.2
The area that the picture will take up on the box can be calculated by finding the area of the individual snack bar and then multiplying it by the number of bars on the box.
Let's assume the dimensions of each snack bar are 2 inches by 1 inch. Therefore, the area of one snack bar is 2 sq. inches.
If the box contains 10 snack bars, the total area taken up by all the snack bar pictures on the box would be:
2 sq. inches (area of one snack bar) x 10 bars = 20 sq. inches
Therefore, the picture will take up 20 sq. inches on the box. So, the answer is 20 in.2.