A farmer wants to plant a small garden along a river. He would like the garden to be rectangular and use the least amount of fencing possible. The area of the garden is square meters.
The area gives us this constrain equation:
The perimeter will be the objective function for this problem. However, note that one of the sides is bounded by a river, so the farmer doesn't need any fence on that side.
is the longest side and is the shortest. Or, expressing via :
Now, select the option that will correctly find the first derivative of the objective function.