a cookie company packages its cookies in a rectangular prism box designed with square bases which have both a length and a width of 4 inches less than the height of the box. write a polynomial expression that represents the volume of a box with height x inches
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Represent your unknowns: Let s be the length of one side of the box. The relationship between s and x is s = x-4.
The volume of the box is (length)(width)(height), which here equals the following: V(x) = (x-4)*(x-4)*(x). You may either leave this result as is, or shorten it to V(x) = (x-4)^2*x, or expand (x-4)*(x-4)*(x).