What is the maximum amount of area you can fence with 400 feet of fencing if you need to make three rectangular pig pens against a barn?

a farmer has 600 feet of fencing to create a rectangular pen for their sheep. find the areas of the pen if the length of the pen is twice the width, then explain how you found your answer.

We want to build a playing field where the length of the field is twice as long as the width. The cost for turf is $4 per square foot. We have $50,000 to spend. What is the largest area we can cover with turf?

You are attending the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. The route is 6 miles long. If spectators line up 4 feet deep on both sides of the road and the rule of thumb is that each spectator takes up an average of 1.75ft² estimate how many spectators are attending the parade.

A group of friends is roping off a soccer field in a back yard. A particular full-size soccer field is a rectangle with a length of 130 yards and a width of 70 yards. To fit the field in the back yard, the group needs to reduce the size of the field so its perimeter is 160 yards. What is the area of the soccer field in the back yard? The area of the field in the back yard is square yards.

A gallon of latex paint can cover 250 square feet. Maria has a rectangular room whose dimensions are 20 feet by 22 feet, with 9​-foot ceilings. How many gallon containers of paint does she need to buy to paint two coats on each​ wall?

An aquarium curator wants to expand his facility by constructing a new aquarium. The old aquarium is a cylinder that is 20 feet tall with a diameter of 50 feet. The new aquarium will be similar cylinder with a diameter of 100 feet. How much more water, in cubic feet, will the new aquarium hold?

Mr. Jones wants to fill his rectangular fish tank with water. The fish tank measures 2 feet wide, 6 foot long, and 4 feet high. Mr. Jones only wants the water in the tank to have a height of 3 feet. If he uses a bucket that holds 6 cubic feet of water, how many buckets of water does Mr. Jones need to fill the fish tank to the desired height?