Find the maximum and minimum volumes of a rectangular box whose surface area equals 3000 square cm and whose edge length (sum of lengths of all edges) is 280 cm. Hint: It can be deduced that the box is not a cube, so if x, y, and z are the lengths of the sides, you may want to let x represent a side with and . Maximum value is
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occuring at (
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). Minimum value is
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occuring at (
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).
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