Mathematical optimization: Building a rectangular pen

A farmer wants to build a rectangular pen for his sheep. One side is a straight river. For the other three sides he has 200m of fencing to use. What is the maximum area of pen he can make?

 

Juan Carlos Ponce Campuzano

 
Tipo de recurso
Actividad
Etiquetas
exploration  extremum-problem  find-zeros-min-and-max  function  maxima-minima  optimization 
Grupo destino (edad)
15 – 19+
Idioma
English (United Kingdom)
 
 
 
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