SOLUTION: You have a rectangular piece of wood that is 12 in by 6 in. A small length, x,is cut from each of the 4 corners yielding a surface area of 20 in². Find the value of x?

Question 1189612: You have a rectangular piece of wood that is 12 in by 6 in. A small length, x,is cut from each of the 4 corners yielding a surface area of 20 in². Find the value of x?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic:
Answer by ikleyn(52855)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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You have a rectangular piece of wood that is 12 in by 6 in. A small length, x,is cut from each of the 4 corners
yielding a surface area of 20 in². Find the value of x?
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Soup of words.

" The length " can not be cut from 2D figure.   Some shape can be cut, but not the length.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39625)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
ONLY if this piece of wood is very flat, and you are only interested in something like two dimensions:

Original rectangle's area, square inches

An area of removed from all the four corners.

Remaining area, 20 square inches.

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