A company makes wax candles shaped like a rectangular prism each candle is 5cm long 2cm wide and 12cm tall if the company used 5040cm cued if wax how many candles did they use

42 candles

Step-by-step explanation:

Firstly, we need to find the surface area of the pyramid used. This can be obtained by finding the area of the base, multiplied by the height of the pyramid.

The area of the base since it is rectangle is L * B and that is 5 * 2 = 10cm.sqr

The volume of the pyramid is A * h and that is 10 * 12 = 120cm.cub

To fInd the number of candles used , we simply divide the volume of wax by the volume of a candle.

That is 5040/120 = 42 candles

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