The Greatest Fenced Area along a Barn

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A farmer has 200 meters of fence available and would like to fence off a rectangular area along his 200-meter-long barn. What dimensions would yield the maximum area and what is that maximum area?

Contributed by: Nasri Abdel-Aziz (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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