A police officer is investigating a crime which occurred in a rectangular field next to a building.  He wants to seal the three sides of the area around the scene with 300 m of yellow police tape.  What is the maximum area that he can enclose and what are the dimensions of this area? (Hint: Draw a picture and introduce a variable x for the width…think about an expression for the length in terms of x)

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