A rectangular piece of cardboard is 16y cm long and 23 cm wide. Four square pieces of cardboard whose sides are 6y cm each are cut away from the corners. Find the area of the remaining cardboard. Express your answer in terms of y. If your answer is ay^b, then what is a+b?

Area of remaining cardboard is 224y^2 cm^2

a + b = 226

Step-by-step explanation:

The complete and correct question is;

A rectangular piece of cardboard is 16y cm long and 23y cm wide. Four square pieces of cardboard whose sides are 6y cm each are cut away from the corners. Find the area of the remaining cardboard. Express your answer in terms of y. If your answer is ay^b, then what is a+b?

Solution;

Mathematically, at any point in time

Area of the cardboard is length * width

Here, area of the total cardboard is 16y * 23y = 368y^2 cm^2

Area of the cuts;

= 4 * (6y)^2 = 4 * 36y^2 = 144y^2

The area of the remaining cardboard will be :

368y^2-144y^2

= 224y^2

Compare this with;

ay^b

a = 224, and b = 2

a + b = 224 + 2 = 226

the answer is 0.3175 hope that you ^w^

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step-by-step explanation:

i think something is missing in your question because y-1=(x-12) would not pass through the point (-4,-3). because if you replace x by -4 your are supposed to find y=-3 which is not the case her. if you replace x by -4 you find =-15.

i assume the right equation is y-1=1/4*(x-12) because this one is passing through both your points (if you are interested to know how i found that out i can tell you).

in this equation if i replace x by -4 i find y=-3 and if i replace x by 12, i find y=1 so the line representing this equation is passing through those 2 points.

then the standard form of the equation is finding an expression of y in function of x

y-1=1/4*(x-12)

y=x/4-3+1

y=x/4-2

hope that .

do you confirm there was a mistake in the question?