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A farmer with 4000 meters of fencing wants to enclose a rectangular plotthat borders a straight river. If the farmer does not fence the side along theriver, what is the largest rectangular area that can be enclosed

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Answer:

I know that the Perimeter is 4000. So, 4000=L+2w because we are not using on of the lengths.

What I did is inputed 4000-2x in for L, but I got 0. What do I do?

Explanation:

it just is I think it should be

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