SCENARIO:"Since the public is becoming increasingly concerned about the impact that food packaging is having on the environment, the president of the Chocolate Company, The Sweet Bite, has called a crisis management meeting of her strategy team. Sales of the company's signature chocolate bar, the Chocolongo, have plummeted since a recent article named the company as the largest producer of packaging waste in the chocolate bar industry. This is very distressing news for the company. Before the appearance of the article, the Chocolongo Bar had always met with rave reviews because of its unique long, thin shape.""The president wants to continue providing her loyal customers with the same volume of chocolate while reducing the amount of packaging used. Therefore, her strategy team must determine a different format for the bar. To preserve some similarity between the original Chocolongo Bar and the new one, the team leader requires that the new bar have only a single wrapping. No additional sleeve is to be used. The team must provide proof that the selected format will result in the least amount of packaging. A member of the strategy team has asked our class for assistance with this challenge."
"Your team has 36 interlocking cubes, which represent the total volume of a Chocolongo Bar. Your task is to work with the 36 interlocking cubes to find all other possible formats for the new and improved bar. For shipping and storage purposes, the final product must be in the form of a rectangular prism."“You will be working in teams of four. As a first step, you will each work independently to contribute to this group blog in the comment section just below, noting every possible format for the new Chocolongo Bar and identifying the total surface area. During sharing, you will compare your possibilities with those of your team members and determine which format best meets requirements." 
I think that if we play around with the blocks we can probably get the most amount of chocolate with the least amount of packageing.
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I was looking at what the other groups came up with and they are sharing the formula for volume. I think maybe that if the question is talking about packaging that we should be looking at surface area. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteI acshully had an idea but it having to be a rectanguler prisam kind of made it harder todo this question, but I know with team effort we can get it right.Rachel:)
ReplyDeleteYa sure we can play around with it and possibly we might find answer wrong or rght it's tottaly worth a try.Rachel;D
ReplyDeleteok I say we also try surface area volume and area
ReplyDeleteit just might be the key to making this question easyer.Rachel:D
yesterday, we figuered out 4 ways to pack the choco longo and 6 by 6 was the one with the least surface area ya it was a squer but it's bacicly considered a rectangelur prisam. We also disidced to do photo story with our project and we're all most done!Rachel:D
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