SOLUTION: 1) A gardener is fencing off a rectangular area with a fixed perimeter of 20 ft. What is the 1) maximum area?
A) 100 ft2 B) 1.25 ft2 C) 25 ft2 D) 5 ft2
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Question 1066244: 1) A gardener is fencing off a rectangular area with a fixed perimeter of 20 ft. What is the 1) maximum area?
A) 100 ft2 B) 1.25 ft2 C) 25 ft2 D) 5 ft2
Answer by ikleyn(52921) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A rectangle with the fixed perimeter which has the maximal area is a square.
In the given case it is a square with the side measure of 5 fr and the area of 25 ft^2. Case c).
See the lesson
- A rectangle with a given perimeter which has the maximal area is a square
in this site.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Finding minimum/maximum of quadratic functions".
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