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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)
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.