A farmer has 1,600 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 length (longest side) of and area of feet, feet, square feet.
A farmer has 1,600 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 length (longest side) of and area of feet, feet, square feet.
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Transcribed Image Text:A farmer has 1,600 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
length (longest side) of
and area of
feet,
feet,
square feet.
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