SOLUTION: A farmer decides to enclose a rectangular garden using the side of a barn as one side of the rectangle. What is the maximum area that the farmer can enclose with 100 feet of fence?
Question 245437: A farmer decides to enclose a rectangular garden using the side of a barn as one side of the rectangle. What is the maximum area that the farmer can enclose with 100 feet of fence? What should the dimensions of the garden be to give this area? The maximum area the farmer can enclose 100 feet of fence is how many square feet? The dimensions of the garden to give this one is 50 feet by __ feet? Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There is obviously something missing.
We don't know the size of the barn so we can't use the barn.
Without the barn the perimeter of the enclosed area is 100 feet.
100 feet perimeter of a square garden would make the sides 25 feet.
25 ^2=625 sq feet
If we must have the length be 50 ft. then the garden has no width.
So it would be nice to have the side of the barn.
