Please help with this calculus problem:
A woman plans to fence off three sides of a rectangular garden, one side of the garden is a wall. The area of the garden is 64ft2. What should be the dimensions of the garden if she wants to minimize the amount of fence used?

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Please help with this calculus problem:
A woman plans to fence off three sides of a rectangular garden, one side of the garden is a wall. The area of the garden is 64ft2. What should be the dimensions of the garden if she wants to minimize the amount of fence used?

tkhunny · Answer

W = Length of the Wall Side
H = the length of the non-wall side.

W*H = 64 ft^2

W + 2H = Perimeter covered by the fence

That was just every thing that jumped into my mind as I read the problem.  Now, can you put all those pieces together to solve the problem?

anonymous · Answer

I actually just solved it. Thanks :)