Question

Mary bought a video game as the 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[(8 $\times$ 6) + (6 $\times$ 2) + (2 $\times$ 8)] $c{m}^2$

= 152 $c{m}^2$

The area of each sheet of the paper = 2 $\times$ 2 $c{m}^2$

= 4 $c{m}^2$

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