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mark began to create a garden in his backyard. He has 80 feet offence to enclose the rectangular garden and he wants to maximize the area. Find the dimensions for the length and the width of the garden.

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20 feet for square, or 10 and 20, or 5 and 35

User Adamjmarkham
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if you use perimeter you could use Length: 30 and width: 10 because 30 times 2 is 60 and 10 times 2 is 20 and add those together and you'll get 80 feet. hopefully that answered you question
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