A rancher has 400 feet of fencing to put around a rectangular field and then subdivide the field into 3 identical smaller rectangular plots by placing two fences parallel to one of the field's shorter sides Find the dimensions that maximize the enclosed areaWrite your answers as fractions reduced to lowest terms

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Problem 10.80TI: The distance between opposite corners of a rectangular field is four more than the width of the...
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A rancher has 400 feet of fencing to put around a rectangular field and then subdivide the field into 3 identical smaller rectangular plots by placing two fences parallel to one of the field's shorter sides Find the dimensions that maximize the enclosed areaWrite your answers as fractions reduced to lowest terms

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