The answer to the question is a
Note that

, where

is the area,

is the length, and

is the width. Substituting our values in, we have:

Multiplying by

gives:

So the width is

miles.
You're looking for the extreme values of
subject to
. The Lagrangian is

with critical wherever the partial derivatives vanish:




Substituting the first three solutions into the last equation gives



At these points, we have


so the highest temperature the bee can experience is 28º F at the point (1, 2, -2), and the lowest is -26º F at the point (-1, -2, 2).