Problema Solution
A rancher wants to use 200 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular area of 2400 square feet. What dimensions should the rectangle have?
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area is length*width
let 'x' represent the length, then '(200-2x)/2' represents the width
the area of 2400 is solved by multiplying the length times the width:
x = {60, 40}
So the length is 60 feet and the width is 40 feet.