Frances has 4 square baking dishes. Each pan is 7 inches × 7 inches × 2 inches. Which expression will give her the total volume of all the pans? A. 7^2 × 2 B. 7 × 2^4 C. (7 × 2 × 2) × 4 D. (7^2 × 2) × 4
The equation inside the parenthesis finds the volume of one pan and then that is multiplied by 4 which is the total number of pans. This will find the volume of all 4 pans.