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Your friend is comparing two 6-sided cubic storage bins. The yellow bin has a surface area of 9600 square centimeters and costs $25. The blue bin has a surface area of 7350 square centimeters and costs$20. a. Find the edge length of each bin. b. Which bin costs less per cubic centimeter? Explain your reasoning.
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- The surface area of the bin is
- The surface area of the bin is
Since each bin is -sided cubic, it menas their surface area consists of squares.
The surfrace of each square of bin is
The surfrace of each square of bin is
Since area of a square is given by where is its side length, then the length is given by
Let be the side length of the yellow bin and the side length of the blue bin.
Now we have:
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