A rancher has 600 feet of fencing to put around a rectangular fleld and then subdivide the field into 2 identical smaller rectangular plots by placing a fence parallel toone of the field's shorter sides. Rind the dimensions that maximize the enclosed area. Write your answers as fractions reduced to lowest terms.

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