Generalize on Example to show that the largest rectangle with a fixed perimeter [math]p[/math] is a square with side [math]\frac p4[/math].
A field is bounded on one side by a stone wall. A rectangular plot of ground is to be fenced off, using the stone wall as one boundary and [math]200[/math] yards of fencing for the other three sides. What are the dimensions of the largest such plot?
Find the positive number which is such that the sum of the number and its reciprocal is a minimum.
List all local extreme points and all absolute extreme points for each of the following functions, noting carefully its domain of definition. Classify each extreme point by type.
- [math]3x^5 - 5x^3 + 7[/math]; domain: all real numbers.
- [math]4x^3 + 3x^2 - 6x + 5[/math]; domain: all real numbers.
- [math]x + \frac{a^2}x[/math]; domain: all nonzero numbers.
- [math]2x^3 - 21x^2 + 60x - 25[/math]; domain: all nonnegative real numbers.
- [math]\frac{x^2}{x-1}[/math]; domain: all real numbers except [math]1[/math].
- [math]3x^4 - 20x^3 - 36x^2 + 54[/math]; domain: all nonpositive real numbers.
- [math](x-1)^2(x+1)^3[/math]; domain: all nonnegative real numbers no greater than [math]2[/math].
- [math]2-(x+4)^\frac23[/math]; domain: all real numbers.
- [math](x-1)^2(x-4)[/math]; domain: all nonnegative real numbers.
Generalize on Example to show that the right circular cylinder with a fixed volume and the least total surface area has a diameter equal to its height.
Show that [math]f(x)=x^4[/math] has an extreme point where the second derivative is neither positive nor negative. What type of extreme point is it? Explain why this is not a contradiction of Theorem.
A line has positive intercepts on both axes and their sum is [math]8[/math]. Write an equation of the line if it cuts off in the first quadrant a triangle with area as large as possible.
Find two nonnegative numbers, [math]x[/math] and [math]y[/math], such that [math]x+y=6[/math] and [math]x^2y[/math] is as large as possible.
Find all ordered pairs, [math](x, y)[/math], such that [math]xy=9[/math] and [math]\sqrt{x^2 + y^2}[/math] is a minimum. Interpret your result geometrically.
- lab{2.2.10a} Graph the set of ordered pairs [math](x,y)[/math] such that [math]4x^2 + y^2 = 8[/math]. The graph is called an ellipse.
- Find all ordered pairs [math](x,y)[/math], such that [math]4x^2 + y^2 = 8[/math] and [math]4xy[/math] is a maximum.
- Find the dimensions of the largest (in area) rectangle which has sides parallel to the [math]x[/math]-axis and the [math]y[/math]-axis and is inscribed in the ellipse of \ref{ex2.2.10a}.