What dimensions should you make a box to give you 1.75 cubic feet?

Answer 1

There are an infinite number of options:

1 ft x 1 ft x 1.75 ft

1 ft x 2 ft x 0.875 ft

etc. Or

0.5 ft x 1 ft x 3.5 ft

0.5 ft x 2 ft x 1.75 ft

In fact, pick any two positive numbers, a and b and let c = 1.75/(a*b)

Then a box with dimensions a, b and c will give you 1.75 cubic feet.

Suppose a = 1000 ft and b = 0.7 ft then c = 1.75/(1000*7) = 0.00025 ft