You are a store clerk assigned to stack notebooks in a box for shipment. Each notebook is 29 centimeters long, 21.5 centimeters wide, and 1.5 centimeters thick. The box can hold a maximum of 12 notebooks.
To the nearest whole number of cubic centimeters, what is the minimum volume of the box?
A. 64
B. 624
C. 935
D. 7,500
E. 11,223