SOLUTION: Not sure how to go about the question, simultaneous equations?
The question is as follows:
A farmer has a straight, fenced road along the boundary of his property. He wises to fe
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Question 1028745: Not sure how to go about the question, simultaneous equations?
The question is as follows:
A farmer has a straight, fenced road along the boundary of his property. He wises to fence an enclosure and has enough materials to erect 500m of fence. What would the dimensions to enclose the largest possible rectangular area, assuming that he uses the existing boundary fence as one of the sides?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So it's a 3 sided rectangle that he needs to build using 500m of fencing.
The area is,
The perimeter of fencing used is,
So you can then make area a function of one variable,
Substituting,
To find the maximum, convert to vertex form:
So the maximum area of occurs when
Then,
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