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Volume of a box A cardboard box has a square base, with each edge of the base having length x inches, as shown in the figure. The total length of all 12 edges of the box is 144 in.
(a) Show that the volume of the box is given by the function
(b) What is the domain of V? (Use the fact that length and volume must be positive.)
(c) Draw a graph of the function V and use it to estimate the maxim volume for such a box.
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