Kenard takes a square piece of cardboard and cuts 4 in. by 4 in. squares out of each corner. He folds the sides up to make a box without a top. What equation can Kenard use to determine the volume of the box, where x is the side length of the original piece of cardboard
Answer:
\(4x^2-64x+256\)
Step-by-step explanation:
Since original square has sides x,
when we cut 4 units from all the 4 sides the box will have height of 4 units.
Length of the box = side of square - 2 times square side cut
= x-2(4) = x-8
Similarly width of the box also would be
x-8
Hence volume of the box = lwh
= length x widthx height
Now substitute for each in terms of x
Volume =\((x-8)(x-8)(4)\\=4x^2-64x+256\)