SOLUTION: You have two feet of fencing to enclose two adjacent rectangular corrals. The total area of the enclosed region is 1400 square feet. What are the dimensions of each corral? (The co

Question 997923: You have two feet of fencing to enclose two adjacent rectangular corrals. The total area of the enclosed region is 1400 square feet. What are the dimensions of each corral? (The corrals are the same size). I don't really know where to start on this one.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The given values make very poor sense. "Two feet of fencing" to make a corral will give as largest area, only square foot of area. The given region to enclose of 1400 square feet is nonsense.

Simply stated, you were given a bad exercise.

Outside of the inconsistent values you were given in your exercise, a lesson is available for a rectangular perimeter - area relationship. Study it here:
FIND RECTANGLE DIMENSIONS USING GIVEN PERIMETER AND AREA
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