SOLUTION: A college is planning to construct a rectangular parking lot on land bordered on one side by a highway. The plan is to use 600 feet of fencing to fence off the other three sides. W
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Question 1062015: A college is planning to construct a rectangular parking lot on land bordered on one side by a highway. The plan is to use 600 feet of fencing to fence off the other three sides. What dimensions should the lot have if the enclosed area is to be a maximum?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The perimeter for 3 sides is
is the side parallel to hwy
is perpendicular to hwy
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ft
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The area is:
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is found by the formula
ft
and
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The lot is 150 by 300 ft2
Plug this result back into equation
to find
ft2
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