SOLUTION: Quadratic equation for the cover of an open box with 8 cm as length and 5cm width and a volume of 240^3.Quadratic Equation that would represent the volume of the cover

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Question 1121371: Quadratic equation for the cover of an open box with 8 cm as length and 5cm width and a volume of 240^3.Quadratic Equation that would represent the volume of the cover
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Something doesn't make sense. You give the volume of the box, but not the volume of the cover. You also don't give a depth dimension for the cover. So perhaps the cover has no depth and is simply a two-dimensional object with no volume. Hence representing the volume with any polynomial would be nonsense. And finally, you cannot represent volume with a quadratic polynomial because a volume is 3-dimensional and therefore requires a 3rd degree (cubic) expression to describe it. Quadratics are 2nd-degree polynomials.

So I'm left with the unresolvable problem of trying to figure out whether you want a 2nd-degree polynomial expression for the area of the cover or you actually want a 3rd-degree polynomial expression for the volume of the cover, but that you failed to provide enough information.

It would have helped a great deal if you would have followed two of the instructions on the page where you submitted the problem:

1. Explain what it is that is giving you difficulty

2. Show the work you have done so far.

Next time you post, please read all of the instructions and please follow all of them.


John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it