SOLUTION: you have 96 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular garden. The function A = 48x-x^2, where x= width,gives you the area in square feet. What width will give you the maximum a

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Question 324496: you have 96 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular garden. The function
A = 48x-x^2, where x= width,gives you the area in square feet.
What width will give you the maximum area for your garden?
What is the maximum area?

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Complete the square to find the vertex and the maximum value.




The maximum value of 576 occurs at x=24.
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