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  1. December 13th 2009, 09:42 AM #1
    Sterwine
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    A garden against the wall of house is to be surrounded on three sides by a total of 336m of fencing. What dimensions of the garden will result in an area of 14112?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sterwine View Post
    A garden against the wall of house is to be surrounded on three sides by a total of 336m of fencing. What dimensions of the garden will result in an area of 14112?
    hello
    let a and b be your dimensions
    solve the system,
    \left\{\begin{matrix}<br /> a+b=336\\ <br /> a\times b =14112<br /> \end{matrix}\right.
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