Monday, May 17, 2010

You have an 1800-foot roll of fencing and a large open field. You want to make two adjacent fenced areas by sp?

litting this rectangular enclosure in half. What are the dimensions of the largest such enclosure?|||Maximizing the area of four sides is always a perfect square.





Therefore, you know the outside perimeter is going to be 4x, while the line to split the square into two equal rectangles is x. This leads to 5x fence being used.





1800 = 5x


x = 360

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