Adam and his brother are responsible for feeding their horses. In the spring and summer, the horses graze in an unfenced pasture. The brothers will be using a
portable fence to corral the horses in a grazing area. Each day the horses eat all of
the grass inside the fence. Then the boys move it to a new area where the grass is
long and green. The portable fence consists of 16 separate pieces of fencing each 10
feet long. The brothers have always arranged the fence in a long rectangle with one
length of fence on each end and 7 pieces on each side making the grazing area 700
sq. ft. Adam has learned in his math class that a rectangle can have the same
perimeter but different areas. He is beginning to wonder if he can make his daily job
easier by rearranging the fence so that the horses have a bigger grazing area.
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What are the dimensions of the long rectangle the brothers have used? Draw
a diagram