SOLUTION: you have to make a square-bottomed, unlidded box with a height of three inches and a volume of approximately 42 cubic inches. You will be taking a piece of cardboard, cutting corne

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Question 793004: you have to make a square-bottomed, unlidded box with a height of three inches and a volume of approximately 42 cubic inches. You will be taking a piece of cardboard, cutting corners, and folding up the edges. What should be the dimensions of the cardboard, to the nearest quarter inch?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We want to start with a square piece piece of cardboard,
with dimensions x inches by x inches






6+√14 ≈ 9.741657387 ≈  inches.

Edwin
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