Question

Jennifer has 78 feet of fencing to make a rectangular vegetable garden. Which dimensions will give Jennifer

the garden with greatest area? The diagrams are not to scale.​

Answer 1

a

Explanation:

Let's go through each answer choice.

The formula for Area of a rectangle is
`A=l*w`

a.

`A=l*w=19*20=380\ ft^2`

b.

`A=l*w=17*22=374\ ft^2`

c.

`A=l*w=21*18=378\ ft^2`

d.

`A=l*w=23*16=368\ ft^2`

Upon evaluation of each answer choice, we can conclude:

`380 > 378 > 374 > 368`

Therefore the answer is a.