(October 26, 2016 at 2:48 am)Alex K Wrote: I'm teaching my 11th graders quadratic functions right now, they are not amused. Question: you have 100 meters of fence to fence in a rectangular area, but one of the sides doesn't need a fence because there's a wall already. So the question is, how long and wide do you choose your corral to maximize the area.
Hey! That's not fair. I've done my fair share of maths. You're not allowed to slip me that question
Then again, I only got 50% in my own example.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
