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Find Two Positive Numbers Whose Product Is 750 and For Which The Sum of One and 10 Times The Other Is A Minimum

The document shows the steps to find two positive numbers whose product is 750 and for which the sum of one and 10 times the other is a minimum. It defines variables x and y to represent the numbers, sets up equations for the product and sum, solves for y in terms of x, takes the derivative to find the critical point where y = 25, and confirms this is a minimum. The final answer is that the numbers are x = 30 and y = 25.

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Find Two Positive Numbers Whose Product Is 750 and For Which The Sum of One and 10 Times The Other Is A Minimum

The document shows the steps to find two positive numbers whose product is 750 and for which the sum of one and 10 times the other is a minimum. It defines variables x and y to represent the numbers, sets up equations for the product and sum, solves for y in terms of x, takes the derivative to find the critical point where y = 25, and confirms this is a minimum. The final answer is that the numbers are x = 30 and y = 25.

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Find two positive numbers whose product is 750 and for which
the sum of one and 10 times the other is a minimum. [Show All
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The first step is to write down equations describing this situation.


Lets call the two numbers x and y and we are told that the product is 750 (this is the constraint
for the problem) or,

We are then being asked to minimize the sum of one and 10 times the other,

Note that it really doesnt worry which is x and which is y in the sum so we simply chose the y to
be multiplied by 10.
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We now need to solve the constraint for x or y (and it really doesnt matter which variable we
solve for in this case) and plug this into the product equation.

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The next step is to determine the critical points for this equation.

Because we are told that y must be positive we can eliminate the negative value and so the only
value we really get out of this step is :

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Now for the step many neglect as unnecessary. Just because we got a single value we cant just
assume that this will give a minimum sum. We need to do a quick check to see if it does give a
minimum.
As discussed in notes there are several methods for doing this, but in this case we can quickly see
that,

From this we can see that, provided we recall that y is positive, then the second derivative will
always be positive. Therefore,
will always be concave up and so the single
critical point from Step 3 that we can use must be a relative minimum and hence must be the
value that gives a minimum sum.
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Finally, lets actually answer the question. We need to give both values. We already have y so
we need to determine x and that is easy to do from the constraint.

The final answer is then,

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