Martin Sales
The Fencing Problem
In this piece of coursework, I will try and find out how I can get the biggest area of fencing, using only 1000m. I will do this by investigating different shapes I could make the fencing. I will start with rectangles:
Rectangles
Triangles
I found that an equilateral triangle is also classed as an isosceles triangle. So I decided to write down its data:
I also found it’s the last triangle with a 1000cm diameter that isn’t a nonsense triangle, where the base is larger than the hypotenuse.