An artist cuts 4 squares with sides of length x ft from the corners of a 12 ft-by-18 ft rectangular piece of sheet metal. she bends up the sides and welds the corners to form a rectangular garden fountain that is x ft high. write and simplify a function for the volume v of the fountain in terms of x

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step-by-step explanation:

23 + 34 add up to 57 so just inform the teacher of this really stupid mistake

take the logarithm of both sides (the base of the log doesn't matter):

apply the exponent property - this says that :

distribute the log terms on both sides:

group like terms together:

divide through both sides by the coefficient on :

you can do some additional rewriting here using the properties of the logarithm to simplify things if you like:

d. you cannot tell because there are no values shown.