Homework Help: Math--Please Help

Posted by Barb on Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 3:17pm.

A pizza bx with a square base is to be made from a rectangular sheet of cardboard by cutting six 1-inch square from the corners and the middle sections and folding up the sides. If the area of the base is to be 144 in^2, what size piece of cardboard should be used?

Please explain the process; I am way off.

Math--Please Help - Reiny, Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 4:34pm
I answered this same question for you this morning

http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1358072908

What part of it did you not like ?

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