SOLUTION: A carpenter is building a rectangular room with a fixed perimeter of 76 ft. What dimensions would yield the maximum area? What is the maximum area?

Question 470684: A carpenter is building a rectangular room with a fixed perimeter of 76 ft. What dimensions would yield the maximum area? What is the maximum area?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

 

Hi,



 76ft = 2*L + 2*W

 38ft = L + W

 38/2 = 19   19^2 = 361ft^2 A square would have that maximum area 

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