Making a cube part 2

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A cube is to made out of six complete squares cut from a single unit square of paper. What is the maximum volume, V V , of the cube thus formed?

Let a a be the least integer such that V 1 a V \ge \frac{1}{a} . Enter the value of a a .


The answer is 27.

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Jeremy Galvagni
Sep 12, 2018

The side length of the six largest whole squares is 1/3 so the volume is 1/27.

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