Mr. Erickson will be living in the forest
until we return to school.
His tent is 5 ft wide (at the base), 3 ft tall,
and has a length of 8 ft.
How much living space will he have
inside his tent?

We will assume the tent is in the shape of a triangular prism.

The volume of a triangular prism can be found with the following formula, where is the width at the base, is the height, and is the length.

Substitute in the known values.

Simplify — use multiplication.

Simplify — use division.

The volume — or in this case, the amount of living space — is .

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