Afarmer wants to fence a rectangular garden next to his house which forms the northern boundary. the fencingfor the southern boundary costs $6 per foot, and the fencing for the east and west sides costs $3 per foot. if hehas a budget of $120 for the project, what are the dimensions of the largest area the fence can enclose?

10 ft x 10 ft

Area = 100 ft^2

Step-by-step explanation:

Let 'S' be the length of the southern boundary fence and 'W' the length of the eastern and western sides of the fence.

The total area is given by:

The cost function is given by:

Replacing that relationship into the Area function and finding its derivate, we can find the value of 'S' for which the area is maximized when the derivate equals zero:

If S=10 then W =20 -10 = 10

Therefore, the largest area enclosed by the fence is:

1/4 and 8/3 because:

the reciprocal if 4 is 1/4 because 4 is used as 4/1 and the opposite of that is 1/4. the opposite of 3/8 is 8/3 so that is the answer.

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