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Suppose you wanted to construct a fence around a garden plot in the form of a rectangle. On the neighbor's side it's going to need heavy-duty fencing that costs $2.00 per foot. The other three sides can be made of standard fencing material that costs $1.20 foot. You have $200 to spend.

What will be the maximum area?

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Let the edge along the neighbor's side measure y ft and the side perpendicular to this edge measure x ft. Then we ...

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