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aliina [53]
1 year ago
15

A piece of wire 10 m long is cut into two pieces. One piece is bent into a square and the other is bent into an equilateral tria

ngle. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)
Mathematics
1 answer:
Luda [366]1 year ago
8 0

The maximum and the minimum total area inclosed are 6.25m² and 2.72m²

What is an area?

⇒ The area is the region bounded by the shape of an object.

Calculation:

Let x is the length of the piece of wire for the equilateral triangle, whose side will then be (x/3) m long.

⇒  (10 - x) = length of the remaining piece for the square, whose side will then be (10 - x)/4 m long.

h = height of the equilateral triangle = h = a×√3/2 = (x/3)×(√3/2)

(Where a is the side of the triangle)

A(x) = Total area of the square formed + Total area of the triangle formed

Then    A(x) = [(10 - x)/4]²+ (1/2)(x/3)(x/6)√3

                   = [(100 - 20x + x²)/16] +  (√3/36)x² .

           

The maximum total area enclosed :

⇒ The entire 10m length should be allocated to the square because a square produces more area per unit of its perimeter than does a triangle.

Thus if all square, then x=0 and A(0)  = [2.5]² = 6.25 m² = Maximumarea

If all triangle, then x = 10  and  A(10) = (1.732/36)(100) = 4.811 m² .

So, the maximum area occurs when it's all used to make a square of side 2.5 m.

The minimum total area enclosed is :

⇒ We want a relatively small square and a small triangle.

 We are going to Find x by setting the derivative of A(x) to zero.

d[ A(x)]/dx  =   [(-20 + 2x)/16] + (2√3/36)x = 0

                  =  -5/4  + (1/8)x  +  (√3/18)x  = 0

                 x =  5/[4 (1/8 + √3/18)]  = 5/[ 4(0.125 + 0.09622)] = 5/(0.88489)  ⇒5.65 m perimeter of the triangle                  

             

and (10 - x) = 4.35 = perimeter of square

And  

A(5.65) = [4.35/4]² +  (√3/36)(5.65)²

             = 1.1827 from the square+1.5358 from the triangle

             =  2.719m² total area = Minimum area

⇒ On rounding off it will be 2.72m²

Hence the maximum and the minimum areas are 6.25m² and 2.72m²

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