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A carpenter is building a rectangular room with a fixed perimeter of 320 ft. What dimensions would yield the maximum area?

Length (ft)=
Width (ft)=

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Answer:Length= 80 Width= 80

Explanation:

This is because the shapes with the most area are squares so to find this you would do 320 divided by 4 to get that each side is 80ft.

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