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Introduction A Farmer has a plot of land. She has only 1000m of fencing. She wants to fence off a plot of land. She is not concerned about the shape but the perimeter has to be exactly 1000m. The fenced off area has to be the maximum contained area. I am going to investigate the shape or shapes that could be used to fence in the maximum area using exactly 1000 metres of fencing each time. Firstly, I am going to investigate 3 - sided shapes - triangles, 4 - sided shapes-quadrilaterals and 5 sided shapes-pentagons. From there on I am going to gather the results and see if I need to investigate any further. TRIANGLES In first part of my coursework I am going to investigate different types of triangles. Firstly I will look at Isosceles triangles. The formula for triangles: There are two ways of working out the area. You will get the same...

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