Question

You want to create an open rectangular box from a rectangular piece of cardboard. The cardboard has length 14 in and you want to cut 2 in squares from each corner. Draw a diagram. What is the length of the box?
consider that

2+10+2 = 14

The 2" sides are folded up, leaving the length=10.

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