SOLUTION: A 22cm by 28 cm sheet of cardboard has a square of a side x cm cut out from each corner. The cardboard is folded along the line to form a box. what is a monomial or binomial ex

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Question 886790: A 22cm by 28 cm sheet of cardboard has a square of a side x cm cut out from each corner. The cardboard is folded along the line to form a box.
what is a monomial or binomial expression for the length, width and height of the box ?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
When the resulting tabs are folded to meet and form the box, the base will be (22-2x)(28-2x) square cm in area. Either of those binomials is length or width. The height of the box is x.
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