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Lecture 2
By
Assoc.Prof. Mai Duc Thanh
Outline
1. Optimization Problems
2. Applications to Economics
3. Newton’s Method
4. Antiderivatives
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Optimization Problem
• Methods for finding extreme values have practical
applications in many areas:
A businessperson wants to minimize costs and
maximize profits
A traveler wants to minimize transportation
time,…
• Challenge: to convert the word problem into a
mathematical optimization problem by setting up
the function to be maximized or minimized
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Steps in Solving Optimization Problems
1. Understand Problem: What is the unknown? What are
the given quantities and conditions?
4 – 2x
x
x 4 – 2x x
V ( x) 16 32 x 12 x 2
4(2 3x)(2 x)
2
Critical points: x 2,
3
V (2) 0
V (0) 0
2
V 4.74 in 3
3
V r h 60
2
C (0.03)(2) r 2 (0.05)2 rh
cost top and side
bottom
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60
V r h 60
2
So h 2
r
C (0.03)(2) r 2 (0.05)2 rh
60
(0.03)(2) r (0.05)2 r 2 Sub. in for h
2
r
6
0.06 r
2
r
6
C 0.12 r 2
r
6
C 0 gives 0.12 r 2
r
6
r r* 3 2.52 in. which yields h 3.02 in.
0.12
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Graph of cost function to verify absolute
minimum:
2.5
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2. Applications to Business and Economics
C ( x)
C ( x)
x
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Applications to Business and Economics
• Let p(x) be the price per unit that the company can
charge if it sells x units
• Then, p is called the demand function (or price
function), which is expected to be decreasing w.r.t. x
• Total Revenue is R(x)=xp(x), called revenue
function
• R’(x): marginal revenue function
• P(x)=R(x)-C(x), called profit function
• P’(x): marginal profit function
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3. Newton’s Method
• How to solve the equation f ( x) 0?
Example: f ( x) x3 6 x sin(2 x) 5
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Newton’s Method
Problem: Find approximations of r satisfying f (r ) 0
f ( xn )
xn 1 xn , n 0,1, 2,...
f '( xn )
r
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Stopping criterion
• We want to achieve a given accuracy, say to
eight decimal places. How do we know when
to stop?
• Rule: We stop when successive
approximations xn and xn+1 agree to the given
precision
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Example
f ( x) cos x x 0
a) Show that the above equation admits a root in
the interval (0, 1)
b) Use Newton’s method to find the root in the
part a) with starting point x0 =1, correct to
three decimal places
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Solution
a) The function f(x) = cos(x) – x is continuous.
We have
f (0) cos 0 0 1 0
f (1) cos1 1 0
By Intermediate Value Theorem, there is a value
r in (0, 1) such that f(r)=0. So, the equation
f(x)=0 has a root in the interval (0, 1)
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Solution (continued)
b) Find the approximate root:
f ( x) cos x x, f '( x) sin x 1
f ( xn ) cos xn xn
xn 1 xn xn
f '( xn ) sin xn 1
cos xn xn
xn 1 xn , n 0,1, 2,...
sin xn 1
x0 1, x1 =0.7504
x2 =0.7391, x3 =0.739085
r 0.739085
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Exercise
f ( xn )
xn 1 xn , n 0,1, 2,...
f '( xn )
Given the equation
f ( x) e x 2 sin x 0
x
Ex. An antiderivative of f ( x) 6 x
is F ( x) 3x2 2
since F ( x) f ( x).
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Constant of Integration
Every antiderivative F of f must be of
the form F(x) = G(x) + C, where C is a
constant.
6xdx 3x C
2
Notice
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Exercise
1. The top and bottom margins of a poster are each 6 cm and the
side margins are each 4 cm. If the area of printed material on
the poster is fixed at 384 cm2 , find the dimensions of the
poster with the smallest area
2. Use Newton’s method to find a root of the equation correct to
three decimal places by taking x0=0 and x0=1
x2
4e sin x 2 x3 x 1
3. Find f, if