SOLUTION: An open-topped box is constructed froma square piece of cardboard by removing a square of size 5 inches from each corner and turning up the edges.
If the box is to hold 9,680 i
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Question 1196695: An open-topped box is constructed froma square piece of cardboard by removing a square of size 5 inches from each corner and turning up the edges.
If the box is to hold 9,680 in3, how big should the originial piece of cardboard be? Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, greenestamps:Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source):
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The volume will be
We are cutting inches from each corner, so the length and width will each be .
The height will be .
if , then
........take square root of both sides
Since 5 inches were cut out of each corner of the original piece of cardboard, the side length of the original piece of cardboard was 44+2(5) = 54 inches.
