Practice problems for Lecture Twenty One Content

1 : A Farmer has feet of fencing and wants to fence off a rectangular field that boarders a straight river. He needs no fence along the river. What are the dimensions of the field that has the largest area? (List the smallest dimension first)

feet feet

2 : Find the point on the parabola that is closest to the point .
3 : Find the area of the largest rectangle that can be inscribed in a semicircle of radius 5. square units.
4 : Find the positive numbers whose product is and whose sum is the smallest possible. (List the smallest number first).

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5 : If square centimeters of material is available to make a box with a square base and an open top, find the largest possible volume of the box. cubic centimeters.
6 : Find the largest area of an isosceles triangle inscribed in a circle of radius 3. .
7 : The top and bottom margins of a poster cm each, and the side margins are cm each. If the area of the printed material on the poster is fixed at square centimeters, find the dimensions of the poster of smallest area. (list the smallest dimension first)

cm cm

8 : A box with an open top is to be constructed from a square piece of cardboard that is three feet on each side, by cutting out a square from each of the four corners and bending up the sides. What is the largest volume that such a box can have? cubic feet.