Ashipping container is 48 inches wide x 40 inches deep x 48 inches tall. you have a case of parmesan cheese for export to japan that it is an 20 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm box. in order to maximize your shipment over the ocean, how many of the parmesan boxes can you fit inside the shipping container?

The answer to your question is 189 parmesan cheese boxes

Step-by-step explanation:

Data

Container = 48 in x 40 in x 48 in

Cheese = 20 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm

Process

1.- Convert the length of the cheese to inches.

                            1 inch 2.54 cm

                             x          20 cm

                             x = (20 x 1) / 2.54

                             x = 7.87 in

2.- Obtain the volume of the container and the volume of the cheese

      V container = 48 x 40 x 48 = 92160 in³

      V cheese    = 7.87 x 7.87 x 7.87 = 487.44 in³

3.- Divide the volume of the container by the volume of the cheese

Number of parmesan cheese boxes= Volume of container / volume of cheese

Number of parmesan cheese boxes= 92160 / 487.44

Number of parmesan cheese boxes = 189