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Given information

Note that given,

A rain gutter is to be constructed from a metal sheet of width by bending up one-third of the sheet on each side through an angle .

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Draw the required diagram,

Note that the amount of water that the gutter can carry is proportional to the area of a cross-section of the gutter.
Let is the height that the tip of one bent-up segment rise above the base, then the cross-sectional area is
 

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