Cross section: Y-shape inscribed in a unit square. The Y-shape has three "legs", each $x$ units wide. Green dots represent $45^\circ$ angles while red dots represent $90^\circ$ angles. (Not all angles are marked.)

Cross section: Y-shape inscribed in a unit square. The Y-shape has three "legs", each xx units wide. Green dots represent 45∘45^\circ angles while red dots represent 90∘90^\circ angles. (Not all angles are marked.)

A 3-D printer builds a solid of unit height, inscribed in a unit cube, as follows. At height position z∈[0,1]z\in [0,1], the cross section of the solid is a Y-shape (with three "legs" of width xx) inscribed in a unit square, as shown above. (The "leg width", xx, ranges from 00 to 1/21/\sqrt2 as zz ranges from 00 to 11.) Find the volume of the solid as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth.

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