Mathematics

Maximisation problem

11.23.2012 - By Plymouth UniversityPlay

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This video is about the following example of an extreme value problem: if two positive numbers have product 16, which choice of values of the numbers would generate the extreme value of their sum? Is this a maximum or a minimum? [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

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