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Your job is to design a open topped, rectangular box of minimum cost. Suppose the box is to be of volume cubic cm; and the cost of material for the front and back sides is b dollars per square cm, c dollars per square cm for the left and right two sides, and d dollars per square cm for the bottom side. Note that , b, c and d are just arbitrary constants. Treat them just like they were numbers!

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 You would pay 24 dollars and the box would be 24 cubic feet.
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