Homework Help: 8th grade math

Posted by Piggy on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 9:42pm.

You are making a box out of an 11in by 8in piece of poster board by cutting congruent squares out of the four corners and folding up the edges. To the nearest inch, what size square should you use to maximize the volume?

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