A local council is designing a rectangular community garden. They have 16 meters of fencing available to enclose the garden on three sides, with an existing wall forming the fourth side. The council wants to maximize the area of the garden.
a. Define the variables that represent the length and width of the rectangular garden, where the length is parallel to the existing wall.
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Extend introductory study of functions, algebra, calculus. Focus on functions, relations, graphs, algebra, and applications of derivatives.
Covers limits, continuity, differentiability, differentiation, and anti-differentiation.
identification of local maximum/minimum values over an interval and application to solving optimisation problems in context, including identification of interval endpoint maximum and minimum values
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