Mrs. Lindsay doesn't have a cat crate and needs to take her cats to the vet. She's going to make a box out of a 8 foot by 8 foot piece of cardboard. How many feet
should Mrs. Lindsay cut from the corners to have the maximum amount of space
inside the box?

The amount to remove from each corner is a square, 4/3 ft by 4/3 ft.

Step-by-step explanation:

The piece of cardboard measures 8 ft by 8 ft.

Each corner will be cut to create the sides of the box.

Let the square cut from each corner measure x by x ft.

The base of the box will measure 8 - 2x by 8 - 2x, and the height of the box will be x.

V = (8 - 2x)^2 * x

V = 64x - 32x^2 + 4x^3

Now we differentiate and set the derivative equal to zero to find a maximum value.

64 - 64x + 12x^2 = 0

3x^2 - 16x + 16 = 0

(3x - 4)(x - 4) = 0

3x - 4 = 0  or  x - 4 = 0

3x = 4   or   x = 4

x = 4/3  or  x = 4

The solution x = 4 must be discarded since 8 - 2x = 8 - 8 = 0, and the sides would have 0 length.

The amount to remove from each corner is a square, 4/3 ft by 4/3 ft.

step-by-step explanation:

descending order means to order the polynomials from the term with the largest exponent to the term with the smallest exponent.  

therefore, the correct answer is d.