SOLUTION: A rancher has 1200 m of wire fencing, and he wants to use this to fence off the largest possible area for some of his horses to graze. Express the area in square meters
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Question 1107309: A rancher has 1200 m of wire fencing, and he wants to use this to fence off the largest possible area for some of his horses to graze. Express the area in square meters
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Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A rancher has 1200 m of wire fencing, and he wants to use this to fence off the largest possible area for some of his horses to graze. Express the area in square meters
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The max area for a given perimeter is that of a circle.
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C = 2pi*r = 1200
Area = pi*r^2
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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If you mean rectangular area (and not circular), then read these lessons in this site
- 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
Everything was explained there.
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 textbook under the topic "Finding minimum/maximum of quadratic functions".
Save the link to this online textbook together with its description
Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
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