Question

Mary bought a video game as 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?

Answer 1

Length = 8 cm, Breadth = 6 cm, Height = 2 cm.

The total surface area of the box
$=2(lb+bh+hl)$

$=2\left[\right(8\times 6)+(6\times 2)+(2\times 8\left)\right]$

$=152c{m}^2$

The area of each stamp

$=2\times 2c{m}^2$

$=4c{m}^2$

Therefore, number of stamps required = (total surface area of gift box/area of one stamp) = 38