3. Riley finds out that Cooper's Storage and Shipping Company is working with a local business to package some office supplies. Some of the supplies are packed inside a cube-shaped box with side lengths of 4 1/2 in. . These boxes are then packed into a shipping box with dimensions of 18 in. * 9 in. * 4 1/2 in. . How many boxes of office supplies can be packed into the larger box for shipping? Show your work.
ok, so the bigger box has sides that are multiples of 4.5 inches: 18in * 9in * 4.5in. in terms of the cubes that go inside them, the bigger box is: 4 box * 2 box * 1 box, so you know that 8 boxes fit inside.
