SOLUTION: an open box with a volume of 128cm^3 can be made by cutting a square of the same size from each corner of a square piece of metal 12cm on a side and folding up the edges. What is t

Question 1186812: an open box with a volume of 128cm^3 can be made by cutting a square of the same size from each corner of a square piece of metal 12cm on a side and folding up the edges. What is the length of a side of the square that is cut from each corner?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39631) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, the edge length of the square corners to remove

Using some multiplication product and factor facts, x=2 seems to work.

------------the same as right-hand side of this simpler equation.

2 inches, the edge length of the squares to cut out from the corners of the piece of metal.
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