Minimizing Surface Area.
The Hold it Container Co. is designing an open top rectangular box, with a square base, that will hold 108 cubic centimeters.

a) Express the surface area S as a function of the length x of a side of the base.
b) Use a graphing calculator to graph the function on the interval (0, ().
c) Estimate the minimum surface area and the value of x that will yield it?

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