My Closet
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My cousin is coming to visit, and my Mom wants me to empty out my overstuffed closet so she can put her clothes in there. Trouble is, my closet is stuffed to the brim! How many boxes will I need to hold everything in my closet?
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- Aunt Betsy and Cousin Mimi are going to be here at 2 o'clock, and I want to make sure there is room for Mimi's stuff in your closet...
- How did it get THIS messy?!
- How did it get this MESSY?!
- How will I do that? It will take me FOREVER, and she'll be here in 4 hours!
- You're right, she is coming soon. We have to dump everything in as few boxes as possible, right now. Let's use math to figure this out.
- Your closet is a disaster! Cousin Mimi won't have space for her clothes when she visits! It's all going in boxes in the basement. ASAP!
- I measured your closet once. It's 3 feet deep, 4 feet wide, and 8 feet high. That means the volume of your closet is 96 cubic feet.
- Is that supposed to be a good thing?
- We learned about this in math. If I get boxes that have the same total volume as my closet, I won't have to throw anything away.
- Using this tape measure, I see these boxes are 4 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 2 feet high. My math skills are rusty. How many boxes do we need to equal 96 cubic feet?
- Great, I'll grab you 4 more boxes and you should start packing. I need to get the rest of the house ready for their visit.
- Each box has a volume of 16 cubic feet. If you divide 96 cubic feet by 16 cubic feet, you get 6. So we need 6 boxes to hold all of my stuff!
- Now that I see it in boxes, I guess I really do have a lot of stuff...
- Whoa! What happened to your room? It looks amazing!
- Oh, you know, just decorated with some stuff that I found in my closet... and I cleaned up a little.
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