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Question 1091478: A farmer has 60 m of wire fencing which he uses to make a rectangular pen for his sheep. He uses a stone wall as one side of the pen so the wire is used for only 3 sides of the pen.
1) If the width of the pen is x cm, what is the length (in terms of x)?
2) What is the area A of the pen?
3) Draw a graph with area A on the vertical axis and the width x on the horizontal axis. Take values of x from 0 to 30.
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4) What dimensions should the pen have if the farmer wants to enclose the largest possible area? Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source):
