An open box is made from a 40-cm by 80-cm piece of tin by cutting a square from each corner and folding up the edges. The area of the resulting base is 2736 cm2. What is the length of the sides of the squares?

x=2

Step-by-step explanation:

let x be the edge length of the square removed at each corner;

Hence the area of the base is:

Using the quadratic equation formula, or completing the square, x, or length of a side of one of the squares is x=2 or x=58

#Given that x=58 is larger than 40cm, the side length is x=2

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