A rectangular garden needs to be enclosed by 150m of fencing. a) Determine the dimensions that will maximize the area of this garden if you use all four sides. What is the maximum area? b) Determine the dimensions that will maximize the area of this garden if you use three sides. What is the maximum area?
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Let's call the length of the garden L and the width W. We know that the perimeter of the garden is 150m, so we can write an equation: 2L + 2W = 150 Simplifying this equation, we get: L + W = 75 Now we want to maximize the area, which is given by: A = Show more…
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