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Packing Billiard Balls There are several ways to tightly pack nine billiard balls each with radius 1 into a rectangular box. Find the volume of the box in each of the following cases and determine which box has the least volume.
a. Four balls are placed so that they just fit into the bottom of the box, then another layer of four, then one ball in the middle tangent to all four in the second layer, as shown in this side view.
b. Four balls are placed so that they just fit into the bottom of the box as in (a), then one is placed in the middle on top of the first four. Finally, four more are placed so that they just fit at the top of the box.
c. The box is packed with layers of four, one. and four as in (b), but the box is required to be cubic. In this case, the four balls in the bottom layer will not touch each other and the four balls in the top layer will not touch each other. The ball in the middle will be tangent to all of the other eight balls.

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