Mr. Santos wants to enclose the rectangular parking lot beside his house by putting a wire fence on the three sides as shown in the figure. If the total length of the wire is 80 m, find the
dimension of the parking lot that will enclose a maximum area.
Solve the problem by following the procedure below.
Follow the procedure below:
HOUSE
PARKING
LOT
a. In the figure above, if we let w be the width and I be the length, what is the expression
for the sum of the measures of the three sides of the parking lot?