A farmer has 800 meters of fencing and needs to fence off a rectangular paddock that borders a straight river. He doesn't need to fence along the river. Set up and solve an appropriate optimisation problem to find the dimensions of the paddock that has the largest area.

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Section8.2: Perimeter And Area Of Polygons
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A farmer has 800 meters of fencing and needs to fence off a rectangular paddock that borders a
straight river. He doesn't need to fence along the river. Set up and solve an appropriate
optimisation problem to find the dimensions of the paddock that has the largest area.
Transcribed Image Text:A farmer has 800 meters of fencing and needs to fence off a rectangular paddock that borders a straight river. He doesn't need to fence along the river. Set up and solve an appropriate optimisation problem to find the dimensions of the paddock that has the largest area.
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