Completing the Square
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Exercise given in textbook:
A farmer has 40m of fencing with which to enclose a rectangular pen.Given that the pen is x m wide -
show that it's area is (20x - x^2)m^2
and deduce that the maximum area that he can enclose (Answer given 100m^2).
I have completed lots and lots of exercises involving completing the square- also with minimum and maximum values but am obviously missing something here.
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A quadratic equations word problem is solved by completing the square. The solution is detailed and well presented.
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Area = 20x -x^2
Find the derivative and set equal to zero.
dA/dx = 20-2x
dA/dx=0 => 20-2x=0
x= ...
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