SOLUTION: A farmer has 1080 feet of fencing and wants to enclose three adjacent rectangular corrals , if the area of the enclosed rectangle is 36,000 sq. ft., find the dimension of the three
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Question 1109893: A farmer has 1080 feet of fencing and wants to enclose three adjacent rectangular corrals , if the area of the enclosed rectangle is 36,000 sq. ft., find the dimension of the three enclosed area. length 540-2w and W
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I just answered this as problem # 1109885
I believe what is meant (but not really clearly specified) is shown in the sketch below:
Numbers/variables below are meant to be lengths in feet and areas in square feet,
but I am not writing the units repeatedly.
,
so --> --> .
The total surface area is
Dividing everything by 2, we get the simplified, equivalent equation
Factoring to solve that equation, we get
--> .
So, either --> , or
-->
That gives us two possible answers for the dimensions of "the whole enclosed rectangle."
Either the whole enclosed area is wide by long, or it is
wide by long.
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