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Patrick has a 5cm×8cm rectangular piece of cardboard. He is making an open-top box by cutting equal squares of side length h from each corner of the sheet, and then folding up the sides.
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Find an expression for the volume of the box V(h).
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Find an expression for V′(h).
Hence, find the value of h that maximizes V
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