Mary bought a video game as a birthday gift to Sam. Sam likes stamp collection and hence Mary wants to cover the video game gift box with square shaped stamps, each of side 2 cm. If the gift box has length, breadth and height as 8 cm, 6 cm and 2 cm respectively, then how many stamps she has to collect so as to cover the entire gift box?
Length =8 cm, Breadth = 6 cm, Height = 2 cm.
The total surface area of the box = 2(lb + bh + hl)
= 2[(8 × 6) + (6 × 2) + (2 × 8)] cm2
= 152 cm2
The area of each sheet of the paper = 2 × 2 cm2
= 4 cm2
Therefore, number of stamps required =( total surface area of gift box/area of one stamp) = 38