An open-top box is to be made from a 70-centimeter by 96-centimeter piece of plastic by removing a square from each corner of the plastic and folding up the flaps on each side. What size square should be cut out of each corner to get a box with the maximum volume? Enter the area of the square and do not include any units in your answer. Enter an improper fraction if necessary.

Step-by-step explanation:

Length of the Plastic Sheet= 96cm

Width of the plastic Sheet =70cm

If a square of side x is cut from each corner of the plastic sheet to form the box.

Length of the box=96-2x

Width of the box=70-2x

Height of the box =x

Volume of the box = LWH

Volume=(96-2x)(70-2x)x

The maximum volume of the box is obtained at the point where the derivative is zero.

Setting the derivative to 0.

Since we are looking for the minimum value of x,

answer: c, the green line

step-by-step explanation:

there is no black line, eliminate b.

simple interest implies periodic payments, but the red line shows no payments, eliminate d.

simple interest has equal payments. if paid say every day, the graph is about a straight line (actually a stairstep).

the yellow line is not straight, eliminate a.

check: the green line is straight, answer is c.

simple interest with positive interest rate gives a straight line sloping up to the right. green line:

g(t) = $100 + ($200-$100) ÷ (20 years) × (t years)

= $100 + (4%/year) × ($100)(t years)

incidentally, the yellow line curving upward represents continuously compounded interest

y = $100 × 2^(t years / (14 assuming the yellow line hits $200 at 14 years. 2^0 is 1, so y(0) = $100; 2^(14/14) is 2, so y(14) = $200.