SOLUTION: Equal squares of side length x are removed from each corner of a 25 inch by 30 inch piece of cardboard. The sides are turned up to form a box with no top.
What values of x make se
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Question 806774: Equal squares of side length x are removed from each corner of a 25 inch by 30 inch piece of cardboard. The sides are turned up to form a box with no top.
What values of x make sense in this problem solution? What is the domain?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The value of 
certainly has to be larger than zero, otherwise you have no box, right?. Then how big could it be so that cutting by out of all four corners would not use up all of the 25 inch side? That's the least upper bound for your dimension.
John
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My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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