A rancher with 700 ft of fencing wants to enclose a rectangular area and then divide it into four pens with fencing parallel to one side of the rectangle (see the figure).   (a) Find a function A that models the total area of the four pens. (Use w to represent the width of the field.) A(w) =      (b) Find the largest possible total area of the four pens in ft2

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Chapter3: Functions And Graphs
Section3.5: Graphs Of Functions
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A rancher with 700 ft of fencing wants to enclose a rectangular area and then divide it into four pens with fencing parallel to one side of the rectangle (see the figure).

 
(a) Find a function A that models the total area of the four pens. (Use w to represent the width of the field.)
A(w) = 
 
 


(b) Find the largest possible total area of the four pens in ft2
 
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