My father taught me a method that I call, 'throwing some thing over the wall'. There is a sample equation for the first picture that shows you how it works. It's a great way to help isolate the variable and I hope that it works for you. The second picture contains the answers I got through the use of this method. I'm sorry for the messy handwriting; I was on a bus.
Here it is given that the width is x ft and total length of the fence is 2400 ft .
Let the length be y ft
So we have
Let A represents area, and area is the product of length and width .
So we get
Substituting the value of y, we will get
Second part
The area is maximum at the vertex, and vertex is
And
And that's the required dimensions .
Answer:
31 nickels and 29 dimes
Step-by-step explanation:
