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Jay arranges 18 feet of fencing into a rectangle that is 5 feet long and 4 feet wide. Show that he could make a larger area by a

rranging the fencing into a square.

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lara [203]2 years ago

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If Jay arranged the fence into a square each side would be 4.5 ft .

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