SOLUTION: A Farmer has 300 feet of fencing. He wants to enclose a rectangular area of 5000 square feet. What dimensions should he use?
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Question 621962: A Farmer has 300 feet of fencing. He wants to enclose a rectangular area of 5000 square feet. What dimensions should he use?
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assuming he wants to use all the fence,
so width is either 50 or 100
substituting that back in for length, says the length is either 50 or 100 as well.
So length = 100, width = 50
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