A 12 cm by 25 cm by 36 cm box of cereal is lying on...

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A 12 cm by 25 cm by 36 cm box of cereal is lying on the floor onone of its 25 cm by 36 cm faces. An ant, located at one of thebottom corners of the box, must crawl along the outside of the boxto reach the opposite bottom corner. What is the length of theshortest path? (* note: the ant can crawl on any of the 5 exposedfaces (not the bottom, which is flush with the ground. It can crawlon any edge or face of the box) Hint: Pythagorean theorem.

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