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At Bobbi's Baby Bargains, they make and sell baby blocks in sets of 24 blocks. Bobbi has asked you to design a box to package these blocks that will require the least amount of cardboard. What is your recommendation? Provide a justification as to why your design is the most efficient..

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To design a box to pack the set of cubes using the least amount of material, it is necessary to remember that the volume of a right prism is given by:

V=abc,(1)V=abc,\tag{1}

Knowing that all cubes have the exact dimensions, our box must have a volume of 24 Cubics Units24 \text{ Cubics Units}. We must find all possible combinations to build our package with the required volume.

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