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Math geniuses, test your skill.

Alienwho

Diamond Member
3 walls are added to a wall that is allready built. the side and back cost $10 per foot and the front wall $20. The area is 108 sq. ft. Minimize the cost.

Questions:

Write the formulas you use.

Tell how to minimize the cost.

How long is the $20 wall?

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One more question 🙂

Find dy/dt.

-2xy^3+3x^2=-1

I need the WORK on these, so I can study how it's done and do it correctly on the test.
 


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One more question 🙂

Find dt/dt.

-2xy^3+3x^2=-1

I need the WORK on these, so I can study how it's done and do it correctly on the test.
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The question is either wrong or the ans. is 1
 
let s = side
let b = back
let f = front

We know:
total cost = 10s + 10b + 20f
b = f
s * f = 108

Shuffle the third eq. around
s = 108/f

Substitute
total cost = 10(108/f) + 10f + 20f
= 1080*f^-1 + 30f

Derive
d total cost/df = -1080*f^-2 + 30

Set to 0
-1080*f^-2 + 30 = 0
-1080/f^2 = -30
1080 = 30f^2
36 = f^2
6 = f
 
Is this a homework problem?

You're only hurting yourself in the end 😉

You're gonna be at work some day, and your boss is gonna come and say: "Alienwho! minimize the cost of this room right now!" And where will you be then huh? 🙂
 


<< hey ........admit that the question was misprinted ........I feel like a fool😱 >>


Oh sorry, it was dy/dt, not dt/dt, haha. My bad.

Thanks bomberman you rock!



<< Is this a homework problem? >>


Nope, my teacher doesn't believe in homework. I just have a test coming up and need to know how to do it for the test! (looks like my teachers philosophy of being anti homework works in the end, eh?)
 
b0mberman I *think* dy/dt is supposed to be done somehow like this.

-2xy^3+3x^2=-1
(-2x)(dy/dt)+(y^3)(-6x(dy/dt))+9x(dy/dt)=0
uhm, then I don't know.
 


<< b0mberman I *think* dy/dt is supposed to be done somehow like this.

-2xy^3+3x^2=-1
(-2x)(dy/dt)+(y^3)(-6x(dy/dt))+9x(dy/dt)=0
uhm, then I don't know.
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or could it be like this,
dy/dt=dy/dx*dx/dt = (-2dx/dt)y^3+(-6xy^2)dy/dt+(6x)dx/dt=0

rearranged,
dy/dt=[(-3x+y^3)/(-3xy^2)]dx/dt
 
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