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Investigate the maximum volume that a box can have when made from a flat sheet of material.  

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Strawberry box The aim of this project is to investigate the maximum volume that a box can have when made from a flat sheet of material. I will try to find a common rule for finding this. I will begin by looking at squares with the lengths 10*10, 11*11 and 12*12 In order to do this I will cut squares out of each corner in the square and fold up the sides to form a box with a volume. See example below Which can be made into To work out the volume of the box I will put the size of the corner square, the length and breadth of the square minus the corner squares, and the height of the box, and finally the volume For a 10*10 square Size of corner square Length of square - the length of a corner square Breadth of square - the length of a corner square Height (The size...

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