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)
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Published: March 7 2011
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