Hi! Could someone help me with this problem.

You have 8L feet of fence to make a rectangular vegetable garden alongside the wall of your house, where L is a positive constant. The wall of the house bounds one side of the vegetable garden. What is the largest possible area for the vegetable garden?

I am really confused with the 8L, saying that L is a positive constant. I tried doing the exercise ignoring the L and solving it like a normal optimization problem I am not getting a correct answer. I also tried putting the L by the answer and it is not taking either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You!

1 answer

see your earlier post. The area is 8L^2

Or, show your work so we can figure out where you went wrong.