The volume of a prism is the product of its height and area of its base, V = Bh. A rectangular prism has a volume of 16y^4 + 16y^3 + 48y62 cubic units. Which could be the base area and height of the prism?

If that's the volume, then the base and height could be anything that multiply together to get that. It could be as simple as pulling out common factors like 16y^2.

16y^2 (y^2 + y + 3)

The base area could be 16y^2 and the height could be y^ + y + 3.