Homework Help: calculus

Posted by Demetra Mallios on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 3:24pm.

A car[enter will be building a stained glass jewelry box. The frame of the box is to be built from a 48 inch stripe of metal which will be cut into 12 pieces. The 12 pieces are then soldered to form a rectangular box whose base is twice as long as it is wide. How should the metal be cut to maximize the volume of the box.

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