Question

A popular design of tin foil boat is a square-bottomed vessel with straight walls folded upwards to make a box-like boat (search images of “tin foil boat” on the web). Starting with a square, flat sheet of heavy-duty tin foil that measures 12 inches along each side, determine the best way to fold the sheet (i.e. dimensions) in this fashion to maximize the volume, and therefore weight-bearing capacity. Then, calculate the number of pennies that the boat could support before capsizing.

Dimensions: base?

height?

number of pennies?

i figured out the base and the height. i just can't figure out the number of pennies

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