A box with no top is to be fashioned from a 45 inch by 24 inch piece
A box with no top is to be fashioned from a 45 inch by 24 inch piece
of cardboard by cutting out congruent squares from each corner of the cardboard and then folding the resulting tabs. Let x denote the length of the side of the square which is removed from each corner.
How do I find the volume V of the box as a function of x? How do I find an ‘appropriate applied domain’ and what is that?