From the four corners of a square piece of paper of side 12cm, small squares of 1cm are cut off. The edges of this are bent up and joined to form a container of height 1cm. What is the capacity of the container? If squares of side 2cm are cut off, what would be the capacity?

Answer 1

so the base will be 10 cm by 10 cm by 1 cm.
(you are cutting of 1 cm from either end of the 12)

Volume = (10)(10)(1) cm^3 = 100 cm^3

follow the same steps for the second part.

Answer 2

But I am not getting the 2nd one