Applied Optimization A farmer wishes to enclose two identical adjoining rectangular pens against the side of a large barn. She wants each pen to have an area of 650 square feet and will use the barn as one side of the enclosure. What is the least amount of fencing needed (in feet) to create the two pens? The least amount of fence required is ft NOTE: enter an answer that is correct to at least three decimal places (or an exact value).
Applied Optimization A farmer wishes to enclose two identical adjoining rectangular pens against the side of a large barn. She wants each pen to have an area of 650 square feet and will use the barn as one side of the enclosure. What is the least amount of fencing needed (in feet) to create the two pens? The least amount of fence required is ft NOTE: enter an answer that is correct to at least three decimal places (or an exact value).
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The answer is NOT 104.077. Please do not round until you get the final answer/ or just give exact value.
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