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Optimization Problems #1 Name

This document contains 12 optimization problems involving maximizing or minimizing quantities subject to constraints. Problem 1 asks to maximize xy given x + y = 30. Problem 2 asks to minimize A = 4y + x^2 given y(x^2 + 1) = 324. Problem 3 asks to minimize A = x^2 + y^2 given x - y = 40. The remaining problems involve similar optimization questions regarding areas, volumes, or distances to points on graphs.

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Optimization Problems #1 Name

This document contains 12 optimization problems involving maximizing or minimizing quantities subject to constraints. Problem 1 asks to maximize xy given x + y = 30. Problem 2 asks to minimize A = 4y + x^2 given y(x^2 + 1) = 324. Problem 3 asks to minimize A = x^2 + y^2 given x - y = 40. The remaining problems involve similar optimization questions regarding areas, volumes, or distances to points on graphs.

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Optimization Problems #1 Name:

1. Find the maximum value of A if A = xy and x + y = 30.

2. Find the minimum value of A if A = 4y + x2 and y(x2 + 1) = 324.

3. Find the minimum value of A if A = x2 + y2 and x – y = 40.

4. Farmer Brown has 80 feet of fence with which he plans to enclose a rectangular pen along one side of his 100-
foot barn. What are the dimensions that will give the maximum area?

5. He changes his mind and decides to use his 80 feet of fence to divide the big area into parts. What are the new
dimensions that give the greatest area?

6. A box with an open top is to be constructed from a square piece of cardboard 3 feet wide by cutting squares from
the four corners. Find the largest volume that the box can have.

7. A farmer with 750 feet of fencing wants to enclose a rectangular area and then divide it into four pens with
fencing parallel to one side of the rectangle. What is the largest possible total area of the four pens?

8. A cardboard box manufacturer wishes to make open boxes from pieces of cardboard that are 12 inches on each
side by cutting equal squares from the four corners and turning up the sides. Find the length of the side of the
square to be cut in order to obtain a box with the largest possible volume.

9. Find the area of the largest rectangle having a perimeter of 200 feet.

10. A manufacturer of tin boxes wishes to make use of pieces of tin with dimensions 16” by 30” by cutting equal
squares from the four corners and turning up the sides. Find the length of the side of the square to be cut from
each piece of tin.

11. Find the point on the graph of y = x2 + 1 that is closest to the point (3,1).

12. Find the point on the graph of y = x3 that is closest to the point (4,0).

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