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Fencing Problem Introduction I am going to find out which shape will give the maximum area only using 1000m of fencing. I will also prove that the shape I find is the correct one. Triangles - isosceles To find the area of an isosceles triangle I multiplied the base and the height then divided the answer by 2. I already had the base but not the height so I had to figure out the height using the base and 2 sides. To do this I halved the base and focused on 1 half of the triangle. I then used Pythagoras to figure out the height of the triangle. Once I had the height of my triangle I multiplied it by the base and divided it by 2 to figure out the area. We used the isosceles triangle because it gives a large range of outcomes. It did this because we can change the base...

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