SOLUTION: A town is planning a playground. It wants to fence in a rectangular space using an existing wall. What is the greatest area it can fence in using 100 ft of donated fencing?

Question 1157277: A town is planning a playground. It wants to fence in a rectangular space using an existing wall. What is the greatest area it can fence in using 100 ft of donated fencing?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
dimensions v and if one side is v, the the two other sides each is . Area would be .

Find the v for maximum A;

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