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Pre Calc
an open box is to be formed by cutting squares from a square sheet of metal that is 10 cm on a side and then folding up the sides. What i the maximum volume of the box?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 8:32pm by Rusty Wallace

Pre Cal
An open box is formed from an 80cm by 80cm peice of metal by cutting four identical squares from teh corners adn folding up the sides. Express the volume of the box in terms of x. Then describe how you could find the maximum possible volume.
Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 5:50pm by Jen

PRE-CALCULUS
AN OPEN BOX IS FORMED BY CUTTING SQUARES OUT OF A PIECE OF CARDBOARD THAT IS 16 FT BY 19 FT AND FOLDING UP THE FLAPS. WHAT SIZE CORNER SQUARES SHOULD BE CUT TO YEILD A BOX THAT HAS A VOLUME OF 175 CUBIC FEET
Sunday, September 6, 2009 at 12:31pm by ASHLEY

aljebra math
mandy used a square card board to make an open box by cutting small squares from its corners and then bending the sides.The lenght of the side of the the card board used 60cm.question How would you represent the lenght of the sideof the box formed
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 10:20am by rowena

Precalculus
An open box is to be formed from a square sheet of carboard (square is 10x10 cm) by cutting squares and then folding up the sides. (the squares cut off are just the corners as they are labeles as an x by x). A) Find a function for the volume of the box. State the domain of ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 7:12pm by Sam

calculus
An open box is to be made from a flat piece of material 18 inches long and 5 inches wide by cutting equal squares of length xfrom the corners and folding up the sides. Write the volume Vof the box as a function of x. Leave it as a product of factors, do not multiply out the ...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 1:14am by Julie

maths --plse help me..
THE VOLUME OF A CYLINDER IS 48.125cm cube , WHICH IS FORMED BY ROLLING A RECTANGULAR PAPER SHEET ALONG THE LENTH OF THE PAPER . IF A CUBOIDAL BOX ( WITHOUT ANY LID i.e , OPEN AT THE TOP ) IS MADE FROM THE SAME SHEET OF PAPER BY CUTTING OUT THE SQURE OF SIDE 0.5 cm FROM EACH OF...
Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 8:58am by Anonymous

pre-calculus
An open box is to be made from a flat piece of material 18 inches long and 5 inches wide by cutting equal squares of length xfrom the corners and folding up the sides. Write the volume Vof the box as a function of x. Leave it as a product of factors, do not multiply out the ...
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 3:00am by Julie

maths-urgently needed
The volume of a cylinder is 48.125 cm3, which is formed by rolling a rectangular paper sheet along the length of the paper. If cuboidal box (without any lid i.e., open at the top) is made from the same sheet of paper by cutting out the square of side 0.5 cm from each of the ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 12:24pm by Anonymous

maths
what is the volume of box if volume of cylinder is 48.125 cubic cm, which formed by rolling a rectangular paper sheet along the length of the paper. if a cuboidal box (open lid) made from the same sheet of paper by cutting out the four square of the side 0.5 cm from each of ...
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 12:54pm by omkar gangwar

calc
an open box is to be made from a 4 ft by 5 ft piece of cardboard by cutting out squares of equals sizes with width x ft from the four corners and bending up the flaps to form sides.express the volume of the open box as a function of x what is the domain of the function
Friday, August 26, 2011 at 1:41am by natasha

Calculus
An open top box is made by cutting congruent squares from the corners of a 12 inch by 9 inch sheet of cardboard and then folding the sides up to create the box. What are the dimensions of the box which contains the largest volume?
Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 7:32pm by Chris

calculus
An open box is to be made out of a 8-inch by 14-inch piece of cardboard by cutting out squares of equal size from the four corners and bending up the sides. Find the dimensions of the resulting box that has the largest volume. Dimensions of the bottom of the box: Height of the...
Friday, April 20, 2012 at 11:32pm by casidhe

algebra
Open-top box. Thomas is going to make an open-top box by cutting equal squares from the four corners of an 11 inch by 14 inch sheet of cardboard and folding up the sides. If the area of the base is to be 80 square inches, then what size square should be cut from each corner?
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 2:20pm by genevive

math
An open box is to be made from a flat piece of material 18 inches long and 2 inches wide by cutting equal squares of length xfrom the corners and folding up the sides. Write the volume Vof the box as a function of x. Leave it as a product of factors, do not multiply out the ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 3:13pm by Jin

Math
An open box is to be made from a 11 inch by 11 inch piece of cardboad. this box is constructed by cutting squares that measure x inches on each side from the corners of the cardboard and turning up the sides. Use a graphical calculator to find the height of the box that yields...
Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 2:18pm by Des

calculus
a rectangular piece of cardboard that measures 4 by 3 inches is to be formed into a rectangular box by cutting squares with length x from each corner and folding up sides. Find the volumes of the box in terms of x
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 9:48am by Amber

math
an open box is to be made from a square piece,of material 24cm on a side by cutting equal squares from each cover and turning up the sides.express the volume of the box as a function of x.what is the domain of this function?
Monday, July 30, 2012 at 2:20am by aiza saclolo

calculus
an open rectangular box is to be made from a piece of cardboard 8 inches wide and 8 inches long by cutting a square from each corner and bending up the sides. a. express the volume of the box as a function of the size x cutout
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 12:34am by ashley

Algebra
A box with no top is to be constructed from a piece of cardboard whose length measures 6 inch more than its width. The box is to be formed by cutting squares that measure 2 inches on each side from the four corners an then folding up the sides. If the volume of the box will be...
Friday, April 5, 2013 at 8:28am by T H

Math
A box with an open top is to be constructed from a rectangular piece of cardboard with dimensions 12 in by 12 in by cutting out equal squares of side x at each corner and then folding up the sides as in the figure. Express the volume V of the box as a function of x.
Monday, September 10, 2012 at 3:49pm by KC

pre-calc
"An open gift box is to be made from a square piece of material by cutting 2 centimeter squares from each corner and turning up the sides. The volume of the finished gift box is to be 200 cubic centimeters. Find the size of the original piece of material." The sides ...
Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 7:54pm by kari

Math
Please help I have no Idea what to do here. A box with an open top is to be constructed by cutting a-inch squares from the corners of a rectangular sheet of tin whose length is twice its width. What size sheet will produce a box having a volume of 420 in^3 when a = 3?
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 8:28am by John

math
An open box is to be made from a rectangular piece of tin 12 inches long and 10 inches wide by cutting pieces of x-inch square from each corner and bonding up the sides. find the formula that expresses the volume of the box as a function of x.
Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 4:47am by jeniza

calculus
An open box is to be made from a 21 ft by 56 ft rectangular piece of sheet metal by cutting out squares of equal size from the four corners and bending up the sides. Find the maximum volume that the box can have.
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 9:51pm by Mely

Algebra
An open box is to be constructed from a rectangular sheet of tin 3 meters wide by cutting out a 1-meter square from each corner and folding up the sides. The volume of the box is to be 2 cubic meters. What is the length of the tin rectangle?
Monday, October 3, 2011 at 10:15pm by Sejul

calculus
An open box of maximum volume is to be made from a square piece of cardboard, 24 inches on each side, by cutting equal squares from the corners and turning up the sides to make the box. (a) Express the volume V of the box as a function of x, where x is edge length of the ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 5:39pm by Anonymous

math
An open topped box can be created by cutting congruent squares from each of the 4 corners of a piece of cardboard that has dimensions of 20cm by 30cm and folding up the sides. Determine the dimensions of the squares that must be cut to create a box with a volume of 1008cm^3
Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 1:26pm by Melissa

CALCULUS
A PIECE OF SHEET METAL IS 2.6 TIMES AS LONGS AS IT IS WIDE. IT IS TO BE MADE INTO A BOX WITH AN OPEN TOP BY CUTTING 3-INCH SQUARES FROM EACH CORNER AND FOLDING UP THE SIDES. IF THE VOLUME OF THE BOX MUST BE BETWEEN 600 AND 800 CUBIC INCHES, WHAT VALUES OF X WILL PRODUCE THIS ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 8:48pm by diana

Calculus
I actually have two questions: 4. An open box is to be made from a rectangular piece of material 3m by 2m by cutting a congruent square from each corner and folding up the sides. What are the dimensions of the box of the largest volume made this way, and what is the volume? 5...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 9:17pm by Anonymous

Calculus
A SHEET OF CARDBOARD 180 INCHES SQUARE IS USED to make an open box by cutting squares of equal size from the corners and folding up the sides, what size squares should be cut to obtain a box with the largest possible volume?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 11:01am by Oswaldo

Applied Calculus
If an open box is made from a tin sheet 7 in. square by cutting out identical squares from each corner and bending up the resulting flaps, determine the dimensions of the largest box that can be made. (Round your answers to two decimal places.) Height: Length: Width:
Friday, March 8, 2013 at 4:55pm by Jacob

Calculus
An open box is to be made from cutting squares of side "s" from each corner of a piece of cardboard 25" by 30". Write an expression for the volume, V, of the box in terms of s. -I have no idea where to start on this. I know V=lwh (length*width*height), but ...
Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 2:47pm by Monique

college algebra word problem
An open box is made from a square piece of material 24 inches on a side by cutting equal squares from the corners and turning up the sides. Write the Volume V of the box as a function of x. Recall that Volume is the product of length, width, and height. Thank you!
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 10:58am by jenny

Pre-Calc
An open box is formed by cutting squares out of a piece of cardboard that is 22 ft by 27 ft and folding up the flaps. What size corner squares should be cut to yield a box that has a volume of less than 235 cubic feet? I know that the size corner squares are .42 and 9.46. My ...
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 11:33pm by MUFFY

math
Open boxes are being designed to hold mail for the post office. The boxes will be made to have the greatest possible volume. Each box will be made from a sheet of metal that measures 15 inches by 12 inches. They will be formed by cutting and removing a square from each corner...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 5:33pm by Frank

calculus
7. A cardboard box manufacturer wishes to make open boxes from rectangular pieces of cardboard with dimensions 40 cm by 60 cm by cutting equal squares from the four corners and turning up the sides. Find the length of the side of the cut-out square so that the box has the ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 11:08am by Jeff

math
A cardboard box manufacturer wishes to make open boxes from rectangular pieces of cardboard with dimensions 40 cm by 60 cm by cutting equal squares from the four corners and turning up the sides. Find the length of the side of the cut-out square so that the box has the largest...
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 10:06pm by Jeffrey

calculus
By cutting away identical squares from each corner of a rectangular piece of cardboard and folding up the resulting flaps, an open box may be made. If the cardboard is 14 in. long and 6 in. wide, find the dimensions of the box that will yield the maximum volume. (Round your ...
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 9:42pm by eve

calculus
an open box of rectangular base is to be made from 24 cm by 45cm cardboard by cutting out squares sheets of equal size from each corner and bending the sides.find the dimensions of the corner squares to obtain a box having largest volume.
Friday, April 20, 2012 at 11:32pm by sadia khan

maths
an open box of rectangular base is to be made from 24 cm by 45cm cardboard by cutting out squares sheets of equal size from each corner and bending the sides.find the dimensions of the corner squares to obtain a box having largest volume.
Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 2:42am by sadia khan

Pre-Calculus
An open box is to be made from a piece of cardboard 11 in by 17 in, by cutting out a square of length x from each corner and turning up the sides. Express the volume V of the box as a function of the length x of the side of the square cur from each corner.
Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 3:48pm by Em

Precalculus
From a rectangular piece of cardboard having dimensions a × b, where a = 40 inches and b = 70 inches, an open box is to be made by cutting out an identical square of area x2 from each corner and turning up the sides (see the figure). Express the volume V of the box in ...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 12:33am by Jim

calculus
Help!!! A rectangle piece of cardboard twice as long as wide is to be made into an open box by cutting 2 in. squares from each corner and bending up the sides. (a) Express the volume V of the box as a function of the width W of the piece of cardboard (b) find the domain of the...
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 5:16pm by Hector

calculus optimization problem
by cutting away identical squares from each corner of a rectangular piece of cardboard and folding up the resulting flaps, an open box may be made. if the cardboard is 30 inches long and 14 inches wide find the dimensions of the box that will yield the maximum volume.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 3:22am by sasha

Cal
An open box is to be made from a flat piece of material 11 inches long and 5 inches wide by cutting equal squares of length x from the corners and folding up the sides. Write the volume Vof the box as a function of x. Leave it as a product of factors, do not multiply out the ...
Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 5:50pm by Tanzeel

calculus
an open box is to be made from a piece of metal 16 by 30 inches by cutting out squares of equal size from the corners and bending up the sides. what size should be cut out to create a box with the greatest volume? what is the maximum volume?
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 1:29am by lulu

Pre Cal
find the surface area of a box of hieght h whose base dimensions are p and q, and that satisfies either one of the following conditions: a) the box is closed. b) the box has an open top. c) the box has an open top and a square base.
Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 5:20pm by Ashley

math
open top rectangular box made from 35 x 35 inch piece of sheet metal by cutting out equal size squares from the corners and folding up the sides. what size squares should be removed to produce box with maximum volume.
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 2:35pm by Sejul

math.....need help
Solve the problem. An open box is to be made from a rectangular piece of tin by cutting two inch squares out of the corners and folding up the sides. The volume of the box will be 100 cubic inches. Find the dimensions of the rectangular piece of tin.
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 5:13am by marcus

Math
An open box is made from a square piece of metal by cutting out a 4 inch square from each corner and turning up the sides. Find the area of the original square if the box is to contain: A) 16 cubic inches And B) 400 cubic inches
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 7:11pm by Nikki

math
An open box is made from a rectangular piece of cardboard, with dimensions of 24 cm by 30 cm, by cutting congruent squares from each corner and folding up the sides. Determine the dimensions of the squares to be cut to create a box with a volume of 1040 cm ^3
Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 6:38pm by Melissa

Calculus
A square sheet of cardboard with a side 16 inches is used to make an open box by cutting squares of equal size from the four corners and folding up the sides. What size squares should be cut from the corners to obtain a box with largest possible volume?
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 4:36pm by Fall

math
An open-topped box is made from a rectangular piece of cardboard, with dimensions of 24 cm by 30 cm, by cutting congruent squares from each corner and folding up the sides. Determine the dimensions of the squares to be cut to create a box with a volume of 1040cm^3. What ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 12:35am by Melinda

math
A box with no top is to be constructed from a piece of cardboard whose width measures x cm and whose length measures 6 cm more than its width. The box is to be formed by cutting squares that measure 2 cm on each side from the four corners, and then folding up the sides. If the...
Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 10:34pm by amanda

Calculus
an open box is made by cutting out squares from the corners of a rectangular piece of cardboard and then turning up the sides. If the piece of cardboard is 12 cm by 24 cm, what are the dimensions of the box that has the largest volume made in this way?
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 1:42pm by Andrew

Calculus
A box with an open top is to be made from a square piece of cardboard by cutting equal squares from the corners and turning up the sides. If the piece of cardboard measures 12 cm on the side, find the size of the squares that must be cut out to yield the maximum volume of the ...
Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 4:10pm by Candy

Math
An open box is to be made from a 10-ft by 14-ft rectangular piece of sheet metal by cutting out squares of equal size from the four corners and folding up the sides. what size squares should be cut to obtain a box with largest possible volume?
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:53am by NONO

pre-calc please help!!
an open box with a volume of 1500cm cubed is to be constructed by taking a piece of cardboard of 20 cm by 40 cm, cutting squares of sides length x cm from each corner and folding up the sides. show that this can be done in two ways, and find exact dimensions of the box in each...
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 9:52pm by steph

calculus
An open box is to be constructed by cutting corners out of a 9in by 12in sheet of cardboard and folding up the sides. Find the dimensions which will maximize volume.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 9:41pm by cookie

math
By cutting away identical squares from each corner of a rectangular piece of cardboard and folding up the resulting flaps, an open box may be made. If the cardboard is 16 in. long and 6 in. wide, find the dimensions of the box that will yield the maximum volume. (Round your ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 4:10pm by Anonymous

AFM (MATH)
a) Write an equation to represent the volume of an open box constructed by cutting congruent squares from the corners of a 24" by 14" piece of cardboard. b) What is the domain of this model?
Sunday, June 24, 2012 at 12:04am by Sam

Calc
a box with an open top is to be made from a rectangular piece of tin by cutting equal squares from the corners and turning up the sides. The piece of tin measures 1mx2m. Find the size of the squares that yields a maximum capacity for the box. So far i have V=(1-2x)(2-2x)x
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 9:24am by Kieran

math
a piece of cardboard is twice as it is wide. It is to be made into a box with an open top by cutting 2-in squares from each corner and folding up the sides. Let x represent the width (in inches) of the original piece of cardboard. a.Represent the length of the original piece ...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 12:28am by Amy

college algebra
An open box is made from a square piece of cardboard 20 inches on a side by cutting identical squares from the corners and turning up the sides.(a) Express the volume of the box, V , as a function of the length of the side of the square cut from each corner, x. (b) Find and ...
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 11:36pm by danny

math grade 12
A open-topped box can be created by cutting congruent squares from each of the four corners of a piece of cardboard that has dimensions of 20cm by 30cm and folding up the sides. Derermine the dimensions of the square that must be cut to create a box with a volume of 100cm3. ...
Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 3:37pm by karen

Algebra 2
A box with no top is to be constructed from a piece of cardboard whose length measures 12 inches more than its width. the box is formed by cutting squares that measures 4 inches on each sides from 4 corners and then folding up the sides. If the volume of the box will be 340 ...
Friday, March 15, 2013 at 2:01am by April

math
you want to make an open-topped box from a 20 cm by 20 cm piece of cardboard by cutting out equal squares from the corners and folding up the flaps to make the sides. what are the dimensions of each square, to the nearest hundredth of a cm, so that the volume of the resulting ...
Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 12:41am by Sami

calculus
An Open Box Of Maximum Volume Is To Be Made From A Square Piece Of Cardboard Twentyfour Inches On Each Side By Cutting Equal Suares Frm The Corners And Turning Up The Sides
Sunday, September 16, 2012 at 10:21pm by ciara

Math
A manufacturer uses a 28 x 41 metal sheet to construct an open box by cutting out squares from each corner. What length square should be cut to maximize volume?
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 8:56pm by Terry

algebra
open box made from 33 x 33 inch sheet of metal by cutting out x-inch square from each corner and folding up the sides. What size square should be cut out to produce a box of maximum volume? (This is algebra class)
Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 1:57pm by Sushmitha

Math
An open-topped box can be created by cutting congruent squares from each of the four corners of a piece of cardboard that has dimensions of 20cm by 30cm and folding up the sides. Determine the dimensions of the squares that must be cut to create a box with a volume of 1008cm^3...
Friday, January 11, 2013 at 2:29pm by Cadmus

calc
by cutting away identical squares from each corner of a rectangular piece of cardboard and folding up the resulting flaps, the cardboard may be turned into an open box. if the cardboard is 16 inches long and 10 inches wide, find the dimensions of the box that will yield the ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 11:44pm by Jemima

algebra
An open-top box is to be constructed from a 6 foot by 8 foot rectangular cardboard by cutting out equal squares at each corner and the folding up the flaps. Let x denote the length of each side of the square to be cut out. 1. Find the function V that represents the volume of ...
Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 6:10pm by Jade

pre-calc
Is this a closed box, or an open box? Assuming open box. dimension of material= ((x+2)*2+x ) d=3x+4 but x^3=200 x=cubrt 200 size oriainal material: 3cubrt200+4 along each side.
Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 7:54pm by bobpursley

math
a square sheet of tin 30cm on a side is to be used to make an open - top box by cutting a small square of tin from each corner and bending up the sides. how large should be the square cut from each corner to make the box's volume as large as possible
Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 1:38am by irma

College Algebra
a box with an open top is constructed from a rectangular piece of cardboard with dimensions 14 inches by 18 inches by cutting out and discarding equal squares of side x at each corner and then folding up the sides as in the figure. The cost to create such a box is 2.50 per ...
Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 6:37pm by John

Calculus
A manufacturer constructs open boxes from sheets of cardboard that are 6 inches square by cutting small squares from the corners and folding up the sides. The Research and Development Department asks you to determine the size of the square that produces a box of greatest ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 9:08am by Isaac

Calculus (Optimization)
A rectangular piece of cardboard, 8 inches by 14 inches, is used to make an open top box by cutting out a small square from each corner and bending up the sides. What size square should be cut from each corner for the box to have the maximum volume? So far I have: V = (14 - 2x...
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:20pm by Mishaka

math volume
a rectangular sheet of cardboard size 5' by 8' is to be used to make an open box by cutting out the four corners. What is the largest volume and be sure to explain how you found the MAXIMUM volume please and Thank You!
Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 9:13pm by andy

Pre-Calc
A box is formed by cutting squares out of the corners of a flat piece of metal, and folding the sides up. What size cuts should I make to a 14in. by 20in. piece to get a volume of 270in cubed?
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 11:43am by YKWCH

Math
A box with no top is to be constructed from a piece of cardboard whose Width measures x inch and whose length measures 3 inch more than the width the box is to be formed by cutting squares that measure 1 inch on each side of the 4 corners and then folding up the sides If the ...
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 6:49pm by HM

pre-calculus
An open box is made from a square piece of material 36 inches on a side by cutting equal squares from the corners and turning up the sides. Use your calculator to find the maximum volume this box can hold. I got the equation 4x^3-36x^2+1296x = V But when I put it in the ...
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 3:00am by perry

Calculus
an open top box is to be made by cutting congruent squares of side length x from the corners of a 12 by 15 inch sheet of tin and bending up the sides. how large should the squares be? what is the resulting maximum value?
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 4:53pm by Lauren

mnhs
an open box is to be made from a rectangular piece of tin 12 inches long and 10 inches wide by cutting pieces of x-inches square from each corner and bending up the sides.find the domain of the function ?
Sunday, July 1, 2012 at 7:23am by melchor

Pre-Calc
I am having a great deal of difficulty with this problem. An open box is formed by cutting squares out of a piece of cardboard that is 16 ft by 19 ft and folding up the flaps. a. what size corner squares should be cut to yield a box that has a volume of 175 cubic feet. So I ...
Monday, September 7, 2009 at 1:38pm by Ashley

calculus
An open box is to be made from a square piece of cardboard, 32 inches on a side, by cutting equal squares with sides of length x from the corners and turning up the sides (see figure below). Determine the function, V, in terms of x, that represents the volume of the box. A. -...
Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 11:05am by BJ

math
An open-top box is to be constructed from a 6 foot by 8 foot rectangular cardboard by cutting out equal squares at each corner and the folding up the flaps. Let x denote the length of each side of the square to be cut out. a)
Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 7:22pm by alesia

Trigonometry
an open box is made by cutting squares from the corners of a piece of metal that is 18 cm by 26 cm. If the edge of each cut-out square is x cm, find the volume when x=1, x=2, and x=3. If someone could explain to me how to do this. It would be very appreciated. Thanks!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 1:32pm by asdfghjk

calculus
You are planning to make an open-top box from an 12 in by 12 in piece of cardboard by cutting congruent squares from the corners and folding up the sides. What are the dimensions (of the 3 sides) of the largest volume you can make this way?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 8:05pm by jim

math
a rectangular sheet of cardboard 4m by 2m is used to make an open box by cutting squares of equal size from the four corners and folding up the sides.what size squares should be cut to obtain the largest possible volume?
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 7:56am by ct

math
A metalic sheet of rectangular shape with 48m*36m from each of it corner a square is cut off so as to make an open box. if length of each square length is 8m find the volume of the open box ????
Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 11:05am by TUHITUHI

calculus
A box with a square base and an open top is to have a volume of 68in^3 . Neglect the thickness of the material used to make the box, and find the dimensions of the box that would minimize the amount of material used. The width and length of the box are each ___ in. The height ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 12:14am by Haley

Math
From a 10-inch-by-19-inch piece of cardboard, 3-inch-square corners are cut out, as shown in the figure above, and the resulting flaps are folded up to form an open box. Find the surface area and volume of the open box
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 9:08am by Tory

precalculus
a rectangular piece of cardboard measuring 14 inches by 27 inches is to be made into a box with an open top by cutting squares of equal size from each corner and golding up the sides . let x represent the length of a side of each square. for what value of x will the volume be ...
Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 6:39pm by kim

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