Solve. A square piece of cardboard is used to make an open box by cutting  squares from each corner and turning up the sides. The volume of the resulting box can be modeled by the polynomial  where x is the original length of each side of the piece of cardboard. Write the polynomial in factored form.

A. 3(x - 6)(x + 6)
B. 3(x - 3)2
C. 3(x - 6)2
D. 3(x + 6)2


Answer: C

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