8. You want to start a garlic farm, but you are worried about rabbits eating all of your garlic. Thus you have bought 800 meters of fencing to fence off a rectangular field. However, one side of that field borders a cliff, which no rabbit could possibly scale, and thus does not need a fence. Determine the dimensions of the field you can fence in that maximize the field's area.

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8. You want to start a garlic farm, but you are worried about rabbits eating all of your garlic. Thus
you have bought 800 meters of fencing to fence off a rectangular field. However, one side of that field
borders a cliff, which no rabbit could possibly scale, and thus does not need a fence. Determine the
dimensions of the field you can fence in that maximize the field's area.
Transcribed Image Text:8. You want to start a garlic farm, but you are worried about rabbits eating all of your garlic. Thus you have bought 800 meters of fencing to fence off a rectangular field. However, one side of that field borders a cliff, which no rabbit could possibly scale, and thus does not need a fence. Determine the dimensions of the field you can fence in that maximize the field's area.
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