document.write( "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? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( " 76ft = 2*L + 2*W
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document.write( " 38ft = L + W
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document.write( " 38/2 = 19   19^2 = 361ft^2 A square would have that maximum area \n" );
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