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An open cardboard box (with no top) is to be constructed so that the width of the box is four times its length. The length of the box is labeled x in the picture. You have 100 in2 of cardboard to use. Find the length x and the height y that maximize the volume of the box.

(a.) Find a formula for the volume V in terms of x and y.

(b) Use the constraint given by the amount of cardboard available to rewrite your formula for V above in terms of a function of x alone.

(c) Find the dimensions, x and y, that result in the maximum volume.

(d) Justify that the values x and y given in (c) yield a maximum using either the First or Second Derivative Test.

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