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A farmer needs to enclose two adjacent rectangular pastures. How much fencing does the farmer need?

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w=width of the pasture, and
320000/w=length (parallel to river)
F=twice width + length
=2w + 320000/w

Find derivative of F with respect to w and equate to zero to find w.
i.e.
Solve for w in
dF/dw=0
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