Question

A rectangular garden is bounded on one side by a house and is to be fenced on the other three sides. Fencing material costs $15 per foot for the side parallel to the house and $25 per foot for the other two sides. What are the dimensions of the garden of the largest possible area if $1500 is to be spent on the material?

Answer 1

HELP!!! Please???

Answer 2

optimization calc problem?

Answer 3

No, just quadratic....

Answer 4

Here are the answer choices:
A.) 53ft. by 13ft with the long side parallel to the house
B.) 50ft. by 15ft with the long side parallel to the house
C.) 46ft. by 17ft with the long side parallel to the house
D.) 52ft. by 17ft with the long side parallel to the house

Answer 5

aww, so no calc... then it's a matter of finding the vertex to the parabola then....

Answer 6

25x^2+15x-1500=0???