Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Assignment 1 Sept16
Assignment 1 Sept16
ASSIGNMENT 1
Optimization
1. You are palnning to make a open rectangular box from an 8m by 15m piece of
cardboard by cutting congruent squares from the corners and folding up the sides.
Determine the dimensions of the box of largest volume that you can make this
way.
(a) If the total cost is c=5 ( x 2 +4 xy ) +10 xy , what values of x and y will
minimize it?
(b) Give the possible scenario for the cost function in part (a).