SOLUTION: Eliana wants to make a diorama or an art contest contest. SHE starts with a rectangular sheet of a cardboard box is 12 inches long and 8 inches wide. SHE PLANS to make the diorama

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Question 1120653: Eliana wants to make a diorama or an art contest contest. SHE starts with a rectangular sheet of a cardboard box is 12 inches long and 8 inches wide. SHE PLANS to make the diorama box baby cute cutting identical squares from the corners and folding the sides to create a box with an open frontan open box front.
Write expressions for the length and width of the back of the diorama box. Use your expressions to find a polynomial in standard form that represents the area of the back of the box. Classify the polynomial function by degree and by number of terms.
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Deduct the length of the corner twice from 12 and twice from 8. Those will be the length and width of the back of your open top box.
The area of the back is represented by:
L * W = area
(12-x) * (8-x) = area
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