Lucy bought 162 feet of fencing with which to enclose a rectangular garden. of the lengths of the garden's sides are whole numbers, what is the maximum number of square feet she can enclose with the fencing?

for finding the midpoint of any given 2 pair of points simply add the respective x coordinates with other x coordinate and the y coordinate with other y coordinate and divide them by 2

in your question it will be :

(3+1)/2 for the x coordinate of mid point i.e 2

[8+(-4)]/2 for the y coordinate of midpoint i.e 2

so coordinates of mid point of points (3,8) and (1,-4) will be (2,2)

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