The City Council proposed to utilize government-owned land with an area of 12,150 square meters. One-third of the area will be used to plant mango trees while the rest of the land is where an emergency field hospital shall be built. As the city engineer, you were tasked to determine the following: a. the dimensions of the land planted with mango trees with minimum cost of fencing given that area is to be rectangular and to be fenced off

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Hello, I will only be needing the ILLUSTRATION / drawing (I really need this one) and representation of variables for PROBLEM B ONLY. Thank you so much!

 

The City Council proposed to utilize government-owned land with an area of 12,150 square meters. One-third of the area will be used to plant mango trees while the rest of the land is where an emergency field hospital shall be built. As the city engineer, you were tasked to determine the following:

a. the dimensions of the land planted with mango trees with minimum cost of fencing given that area is to be rectangular and to be fenced off on three sides not adjacent to the highway.



b. the rate at which the total average number of COVID cases is increasing at x=10 tents and dx/dt=1 tent per day, given that if 30 tents are built, the average number of COVID cases per tent will be 7 cases while the average number of cases will increase by 2 per tent for each additional tent on the same area due to overcrowding.

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