Consider the following problem: a farmer with 750 ft of fencing wants to enclose a rectangular area and then divide it into four pens with fencing parallel to one side of the rectangle. what is the largest possible total area of the four pens? (a) draw several diagrams illustrating the situation, some with shallow, wide pens and some with deep, narrow pens. find the total areas of these configurations. does it appear that there is a maximum area? if so, estimate it.

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?

Venita is sewing new curtains. the table below shows the relationship between the number of stitches in a row and the length ofthe row.sewingnumber of stitches length (cm)51 131532024306what is the relationship between the number of stitches and the length? othe number of stitches istimes the length.o. the number of stitches is 3 times the length.

Cone a has a surface area of 384 ft2 and cone b has a surface area of 96 ft? . what is the ratio of their volume?