SOLUTION: Farmer Jack wants to construct a yard for his chickens using 36m of fencing he has available. The yard is to be rectangular or square in shape, and have whole number lengths on eac

Question 890902: Farmer Jack wants to construct a yard for his chickens using 36m of fencing he has available. The yard is to be rectangular or square in shape, and have whole number lengths on each side.
One example is shown here
-which has an area of 77m^2
its a square with 11m on top and 7m on side
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

That is the length of fencing to be used. This is not a square.

If Jack wants a square chicken yard, then if s is the side length, then perimeter is 4s=36, and s=9. Jack can make a square chicken yard fenced with side lengths of 9 meters each. The area fenced will be .
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