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A lidless box is made from a square piece of metal by cutting 3 cm squares from the corners and bending up the sides. If the volume of the box
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A lidless box is made from a square piece of metal by cutting 3 cm squares from the corners and bending up the sides. If the volume of the box is 60 cm^3 find the dimensions of the square piece of metal Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A lidless box is made from a square piece of metal by cutting 3 cm squares from the corners and bending up the sides.
If the volume of the box is 60 cm^3 find the dimensions of the square piece of metal
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If 3 cm squares are cut, the height of the box is 3 cm
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Find the area: = 20 sq/cm is the area of the bottom of the box
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Since it is square: = 4.472 cm is the dimension of the side of the square bottom
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Cutting 3 cm squares subtracts 6 cm from the original square piece of metal dimensions
Therefore
4.472 + 6 = 10.472 cm is the side of the square piece of metal
