A farmer has 36 yards of fencing and wants to fence off a rectangular field that borders a barn (so no fence is needed on the barn side). What are the dimensions of the field that will yield the largest area?
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Since the barn acts as one side of the rectangle, we only need to fence off three sides. Therefore, the total length of fencing needed is 2L + W. Show more…
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