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14 March, 16:20

A baker uses square prisms for her cake boxes. Due to the number of layers in her cakes, she needs the height of each box to be 5.5 inches. In order to have enough space around the cake for icing and decorations, the volume of each box must be 352 cubic inches. The baker found that the equation below can be used to find the side length, x, of the box to fit her cakes.

5.5x^2=352

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  1. 14 March, 16:30
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    Answer:The solutions are - 8 and 8, only 8 is a reasonable side length
  2. 14 March, 16:34
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    x = - 44/5 = - 8.800

    x = 8
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