SOLUTION: A gardener is putting a wire fence along the edge of his garden to keep animals from eating his plants. If he has 70 feet of fence, what is the largest rectangular area he can enc

Question 1169260: A gardener is putting a wire fence along the edge of his garden to keep animals from eating his plants. If he has 70 feet of fence, what is the largest rectangular area he can enclose?
Answer by ikleyn(52802) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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At given perimeter, a rectangle having maximum area is a square


with the side length of    of the perimeter,


which is   = 17.5 feet in your case.    ANSWER

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    - A rectangle with a given perimeter which has the maximal area is a square
    - A farmer planning to fence a rectangular garden to enclose the maximal area

    - HOW TO complete the square to find the minimum/maximum of a quadratic function
    - Briefly on finding the minimum/maximum of a quadratic function
    - HOW TO complete the square to find the vertex of a parabola
    - Briefly on finding the vertex of a parabola
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