h = 2
This tells us that every minute, the can fills up 2 feet in height. If the entire
can fills in 6 minutes, then the can is 6 × 2 = 12 feet high.
On some tests you can change pi to an approximation like 3.14. The SAT is not one of those tests. Leave pi alone!
—Samantha
6 The box below is painted so that all of the sides EXCEPT the top,
marked with an x, are painted green. The top is painted purple. What
percentage of the box’s surface is painted green?
This is a surface area problem. Our length is 15, our width is 7 and our height
is 2. So our surface area of the total box is (2 × 7 × 2) + (2 × 2 × 15) + (2 × 7 ×
15) = 298. We are looking for the percentage of all that surface area except the