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Suppose we have a 3D cuboid with sides of length $a, b, c$. What is the maximum area of a slice of this cuboid?
My first guess would be that assuming $a$ is the largest, then the maximum area is $a*\sqrt{b^2 + c^2}$, but I'm not sure this is true.