Question 973099
"Suppose you want to enclose a garden with 26 m of fencing. If the back of the garden is enclosed by a stone wall, 20 m long, what size rectangle would maximize the area of the garden?"
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Draw the wall; label it 20 m
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Draw the other three sides of the rectangle.
The length is 20 m
That leaves you with 6 m of fencing for the two ends.
The width must be 3 m
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Ans: Assuming that 20m wall is the width of the garden,
the rectangle must be 20m by 3m.
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Note: That is not a maximizing problem.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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