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Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic
Designing a Tank Your iron works has contracted to design and build a 500 -ft $^{3}$ , square-based, open-top, rectangular steel holding tank for a paper company. The tank is to be made by
welding thin stainless steel plates together along their edges.
As the production engineer, your job is to find dimensions for
the base and height that will make the tank weigh as little as
possible.
(a) What dimensions do you tell the shop to use?
(b) Writing to Learn Briefly describe how you took weight
into account.