SOLUTION: Mr. Santos wants to enclose the rectangular parking lot beside his house by putting wire fence onthe three sides as shown in the figure. If the total lenght of the wire is 80 m, fi

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Question 1169751: Mr. Santos wants to enclose the rectangular parking lot beside his house by putting wire fence onthe three sides as shown in the figure. If the total lenght of the wire is 80 m, find the dimension of the parking lot that will enclose a maximum.
Questions:
1. In the figure abouve, if we let w be the width and l be the lenght,what is the expression for the sum of the measures of the three sides of the parking lot?
2. Whaf is the lenght of the rectangle in terms of the width?
3. Express the area (A) of the parking lot in terms of the width.
4. Fill up the table by having some possible values of w and the corresponding areas.
5. What have you observed about the area (A) in relation to the width (w)?
6. What is the dependent variable? Independent variable?
7. Compare the equation of a linear function with the equation you obtain
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