Help Farmer Brown!

Farmer Brown is designing several animal enclosures. For each enclosure, he has a given amount of
fencing, and wants to enclose the maximum area. Help FB find the optimum dimensions for the
enclosure.

1. Rectangular free-standing pen (Horses). Amount of fencing is 150 feet.

2. Rectangular pen adjacent to barn (Chickens). Amount of fencing is 85 feet.

Fence

Barn

3. Double pen with equal division (llamas; males and females are kept separate, but tantalizingly
close). Amount of fencing is 650 feet.
4. Triple Pen with three equal parts (Monkeys). Amount of fencing is 700 feet.

5. Double pen against the barn (penguins). Amount of fencing is 300 feet.

Fence

Barn

6. Triple pen against the barn (nothing will be kept in these pens theyre just extra). Amount of
fencing is 430 feet.

Fence

Barn
These next pens are just rough ideas in FBs mind. He hasnt gotten around to drawing them yet. But he
still wants your help to maximize their areas.

7. A free standing rectangle subdivided by one horizontal and one vertical divider to make four
pens. Amount of fencing is 600 feet.

8. A pen formed in the corner of a building, so that two adjacent sides of the rectangular pen are
already formed by the building, and the 230 feet of fence will complete the rectangle

9. The same as #8, but a single partition divides the pen into two separate areas.

10. The same as #7, but one side of the enclosure is against a building, and does not need to be
fenced.