SOLUTION: Problem: You wish to pack a cardboard box inside a wooden crate. In order to have room for the packing materials, you need to leave a .5-ft space around the front, back and sides
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Question 115310This question is from textbook Functions Modeling Change
: Problem: You wish to pack a cardboard box inside a wooden crate. In order to have room for the packing materials, you need to leave a .5-ft space around the front, back and sides of the box and a 1-ft space around the top and bottom of the box. If the cardboard box is x feet long, (x+2) feet wide and (x-1) feet deep, find a formula in terms of x for the amount of packing material needed.
My work:
length * width * height = area so x * (x+2) * (x-1)
I cant figure out how to enter the spaces needed into the equation. This question is from textbook Functions Modeling Change
