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 1152 in3, when a = 2? w=x l=2x

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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 1152 in3, when a = 2? w=x      l=2x

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The length, if it is 2x has two 'a' size sections cut out from it.  So how would you represent that? 2x-____ ?

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right now i have worked it out to 4x^2-24x-1120=0

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4(x-8)(x+20) do not know what to do next

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idk if i have even been setting this problem up right