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A farmer has 1,900 feet of fence and wishes to build two identical rectangular enclosures, as in the following
figure. What should be the dimensions of each enclosure if the total area is to be a maximum? What is the area
of each enclosure? Answer with an exact fraction or round to the nearest whole number.
Each enclosure will have:
width (shortest side) of
feet,
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length (longest side) of
feet,
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and area of
square feet.
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Transcribed Image Text:A farmer has 1,900 feet of fence and wishes to build two identical rectangular enclosures, as in the following figure. What should be the dimensions of each enclosure if the total area is to be a maximum? What is the area of each enclosure? Answer with an exact fraction or round to the nearest whole number. Each enclosure will have: width (shortest side) of feet, Preview length (longest side) of feet, Preview and area of square feet. Preview
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