Problem: An aquarium on a level table has rectangular faces and is inches wide and inches high. When it was tilted, the water in it just covered an end but only three-fourths of the rectangular bottom. The depth of the water when the bottom was again made level was
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Let and be the length of the bottom and depth of water when the bottom is level. Then the volume of the water is .