%Unit: Perimeter & Area% %Grade level: 10- Geometry% %Time ...

Answer the following questions:
1. Where does the maximum area occur? The maximum area occurs when the
base is 8 and so is the height. The maximum area is 64 square yards.
2. To have the maximum area for his mother’s garden, what should his
dimensions be? 8 x 8.
3. If you decided to put the garden along the garage, so you would only need to
fence three sides, how would this affect your area? It would make my area
bigger because I could use the same amount of fencing but I would only need
it for three sides instead of four.
4. Jon wants to buy his mother some seeds so she can plant them in her garden
as well. One package of seeds costs $1.59 and covers three square yards.
How many packets of seeds will he need and how much will it cost him? He
will need 22 packets, because three goes into 64 21.33 times, and we round up
so he will have enough seed. He will be spending $34.98 on seeds for his
mother’s garden. We got the price by multiplying 22 times $1.59.
For homework: Draw the graph on graph paper in more detail. Be sure to include labels and
titles.