Fencing problems.
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Fencing problems A farmer has exactly 1000 meters of fencing and wants to fence of a plot of level land. She is not concerned about the shape of the plot but it must have a perimeter of 1000 m. She wishes to fence of a plot of land that contains the maximum area. I am going to investigate which shape is best for this and why I am going to begin this investigation by showing difference shapes that can be used to make into a fence: Here are some of the shapes that can be used to make a fence, I will firstly look into different traigular shapes with a perimeter of 1000 meters. Below is a triangle which is not drawn to scale, showing the size of its sides. I am only going to use isosceles triangles because if I know the base I can work out the other 2 lengths because they...


