8 - 5(12x + 8)
8 - 60x - 40
-60x + (8 - 40)
-60x - 32
hope that helps, God bless!
For the largest area, half the fence is used parallel to the river, and the other half is used for the two ends of the rectangular space.
The dimensions are 475 m by 237.5 m.
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Let x represent the length along the river. Then the area (A) is found as
.. A = x*(950 -x)/2
This equation describes a parabola with its vertex (maximum) halfway between the zeros of x=0 and x=950. That is, the maximum area is achieved when half the fence is used parallel to the river.

The unknown b is stuck in the exponent position.
We can can fix that by using logarithms.
Log is the inverse operation of the exponential.
We'll take log of each side.
Log of what base tho?
Well, the base of our exponential is e,
so we'll take log base e of each side.

We'll apply one of our log rules next:

This allows us to take the exponent out of the log,

Another thing to remember about logs:
When the base of the log matches the inside of the log,
then the whole thing is simply 1,



So our equation simplifies to this,

As a final step, divide both sides by 3,

k, hope that helps!
Last one and first. You can find out why by isolating the cube root and cubing both sides.