A farmer needs to enclose three sides of a field with a fence the fourth side is a river The farmer has 42 yards of fence and wants the field to have an area of 208 sq yards What should the dimensions of the field be For the purpose of this problem the width will be the smaller dimension needing two sides the length with be the longer dimension needing one side Additionally the length should be as long as possible length yards width 13 x yards 16 hundredths