SOLUTION: A cattle rancher would like to fence an area of 180 square miles by first fencing the whole area and then running a fence across the middle from front to back. The rancher wants th

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Question 1155281: A cattle rancher would like to fence an area of 180 square miles by first fencing the whole area and then running a fence across the middle from front to back. The rancher wants the exterior fence to be stronger than the interior fence and so will use fencing that costs $6 per mile along the outer perimeter and fencing that costs $3 per mile down the middle. What dimensions should the area have so that the total cost of fencing is minimized? What is this minimum cost?
Answer by ikleyn(52786)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Very similar (TWIN) problem was solved in the lesson
    - Calculus optimization problems, Problem 5
in this site.

Consider it as your TEMPLATE.

Having this template in front of view, solve the given problem by the same way/method.



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