Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus, 7th Edition

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1305071751
ISBN 13: 978-1-30507-175-9

Chapter 2 - Review - Modeling with Functions - Problems - Page 242: 19

Answer

(a) 90, see the table below (b) $y=-x^2+19x$ (c) $90.25$

Work Step by Step

(a) see the table, the maximum is 90 when the two numbers are 9 and 10. (b) Assume the first number is $x$, the second number is then $10-x$, their product $y$ is then $y=x(19-x)=-x^2+19x$ (c) The maximum of this function happens at $x=\frac{19}{2}=9.5$ and $y=90.25$ This value is slightly larger than the estimate from (a)
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