SOLUTION: 1.After completing the fencing job from two weeks ago, the company sends you to construct some fencing near a river. Your client wants you to enclose a corral adjacent to a river
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Question 290069: 1.After completing the fencing job from two weeks ago, the company sends you to construct some fencing near a river. Your client wants you to enclose a corral adjacent to a river as in the diagram below.
a. Write an equation that represents the area of the enclosure.
b. if you solved for y, what would be the new equation?
c. If L stands for the ength of the fence, in yards, write an equation that represents the length of fencing that you need,
d. If you substituted your equation from part b into your equation in part c, then L will result in a rational function. Express L as a rational function.
2. Which quadrants, when graphed, would be appropriate to use for this problem? Justify your conclusion.