The back of Dante's property is a creek. Dante would like to enclose a rectangular area, using the creek as one side and fencing for the other three sides, to create a corral. If there is 200 feet of fencing available, what is the maximum possible area of the corral?

Answer 1

divide the fencing equally between lengths and widths.
Maximum area is this 100x50 = 5000 ft^2

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Answer 2

The back of Dante's property is a creek. Dante would like to enclose a rectangular area, using the creek as one side and fencing for the other three sides, to create a corral. If there is 760 feet of fencing available, what is the maximum possible area of the corral?