polly wants to build a rectangular dog pen for her poodle. She has 24ft of fencing in 1 ft sections. What are the dimensions of the best dog pen for polly's poodle? explain
Please help my teacher never explains just hands out problems
problem problem just says rectangular dog ben nothing about squar feet so i am assuming so that the dog has the most room
You might try a few possible dimensions to see which produces the largest pen.
A = 2L + 2W
A = 2(3) + 2(9)
A = 2(4) + 2(8)
A = 2(6) + 2(6)
A = 2(4) + 2(8)
8 + 16 = 24
then you would divide the 8 and the 16 by 2 giving the dimensions
4 4 8 8 =24
is this correct
Right that would produce a pen that was 4 feet wide and 8 feet long. It would contain 32 square feet.
However a square pen that was 6 feet on each side would have an area of 36 square feet.