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A farmer wants to make a rectangular field with a total area of 3000 square meters. It is surrounded by a fence. It is divided into 3 equal areas by fences as shown. Express the total length L of all the fence required in terms of the length x of one of the fences which divide the field.

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Answer is 4(100)+6(10)= 460 meters of fence needed

Since I don’t see a diagram of the fence, I assumed and drew the fence as attached.

Each of the 3 fenced areas are equal and the total is 3000 sq meters

A farmer wants to make a rectangular field with a total area of 3000 square meters-example-1
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