Largest Planar Cross-Section of a Unit Cube

★ 6/10Extremasolid geometryCasework

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A cube has edge length 11. Among all planes that cut the cube, find the maximum possible area of the resulting cross-section.

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Difficulty6/10
TopicsExtrema, solid geometry, Casework

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