A farmer wishes to create rectangular a pen with two dividers in the middle, so that the pen looks like a rectangle with two fences parallel to the shorter sides of the rectangle partitioning the pen into three smaller rectangles. The farmer has 1200 feet of fencing. What are the dimensions of the pen that would enclose the largest area?
A farmer wishes to create rectangular a pen with two dividers in the middle, so that the pen looks like a rectangle with two fences parallel to the shorter sides of the rectangle partitioning the pen into three smaller rectangles. The farmer has 1200 feet of fencing. What are the dimensions of the pen that would enclose the largest area?
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Transcribed Image Text:A farmer wishes to create rectangular a pen with two dividers
in the middle, so that the pen looks like a rectangle with two fences
parallel to the shorter sides of the rectangle partitioning the pen into
three smaller rectangles. The farmer has 1200 feet of fencing. What
are the dimensions of the pen that would enclose the largest area?
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