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Noah finds an expression for V(x) that gives the volume of an open-top box in cubic inches in terms of the length x in inches of the cutout squares used to make it. This is the graph Noah gets if he allows x to take on any value between -1 and 5.What is the approximate maximum volume for his box?

Noah finds an expression for V(x) that gives the volume of an open-top box in cubic-example-1
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the real world domain would be 0 to 2.5, the maximum would be 15

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