Part 1:

What is volume, and how is it measured?

Look at the images above. How are the fish food box and the shipping box similar? How are they different?

Part 2:

Just by looking at the images, what would be your guess of how many fish food boxes can fit into the shipping box? How did you determine that? There is no right or wrong answer.

Determine how many actual fish food boxes fit in the shipping box. Show your work.

Part 3:

Find the volume of the shipping box using the two methods and show your work:

Packing cubes

Using the volume formula

Explain how both methods provide the same measurement of volume for the shipping box.