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Optimization & Lagrange Multipliers · Hard problem

A rancher is fencing a rectangular field of area 2424 square meters, with one additional internal fence (of the same length as the field's width xx) splitting it into two equal pens. If yy is the field's depth, the total fence length is L=3x+2yL=3x+2y meters. Find the minimum possible value of LL.