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Question 1095406: Need help putting word problem into an equation. I have a quiz and test tomorrow and my teacher does not teach us how to do the problems and the way she puts things is sometimes isn't logical.
A rectangular pen is made with 100m of fencing on 3 sides. The fourth side is a stone wall. Find the greatest possible area of such an enclosure.
Answer by ikleyn(52886) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Urgently read the lesson
    - A farmer planning to fence a rectangular area along the river to enclose the maximal area
in this site.


Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lesson is the part of this textbook under the topic "Finding minimum/maximum of quadratic functions".


Save the link to this online textbook together with its description

Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/quadratic/lessons/ALGEBRA-I-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson

to your archive and use it when it is needed.