Sally made a box to hold her jewlery collection. She used 42 inches of wood to build the sides of the box. If the box is 9 inche

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garri49 [273]

3 years ago

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Sally made a box to hold her jewlery collection. She used 42 inches of wood to build the sides of the box. If the box is 9 inche

s wide,how long is the box?

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Juliette [100K] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-11T08:54:56+03:00

Juliette [100K]3 years ago

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The length is 12, because if it's 9 inches wide it has two sides of 9 inches which is 18. Then subtract that from the intial value 42 to get 24. After, you divide 24 by 2 due to there being 2 sides of the box and 24 is the sum of both sides. Hopethis helps!