Consider the Following Problem: a Farmer with Ft of Fencing

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Essay

Consider the following problem: A farmer with ft of fencing wants to enclose a rectangular area and then divide it into four pens with fencing parallel to one side of the rectangle.What is the largest possible total area of the four pens?

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