A box is to be made out of a 6 cm by 18 cm piece of cardboard. Squares of side length cm will be cut out of each corner, and then the ends and sides will be folded up to form a box with an open top.

(a) Express the volume of the box as a function of .

(b) Give the domain of in interval notation. (Use the fact that length and volume must be positive.)

(c) Find the length , width , and height of the resulting box that maximizes the volume. (Assume that ).

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(d) The maximum volume of the box is .

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