OPTIMIZATION

Question to Ponder
How do you maximize
or minimize something
when you go to school?
Reflect on this!

“Everything in Moderation”
1.Sleep/rest
2.Study Hours
3.Food intake
Noticed it?
Logical decisions in real life are
made by optimizing some
quantities (objectives) that depend
on things we can control
(variables).
Example
Recall: Mathematical Mo
deling
• Functions are used to describe physic
al phenomena. For example:
• The number of people y in a certain area th
at is infected by an epidemic after some ti
me t;
• The concentration c of a drug in a person’
s bloodstream t hours after it was taken;
• The mice population y as the snake
po
pulation x changes, etc.
Let’s Analyze
• We model physical phenomena to help us predict what wil
l happen in the future. We do this by finding or constr
ucting a function that exhibits the behavior that has a
lready been observed. In the first example above, we wa
nt to find the function y(t). For example, if y(t) = 10
00·2−t, then we know that initially, there are y(0) =
1000 affected patients. After one hour, there are y(1)
= 1000·2−1 = 500 affected patients.
• Observe that the independent variable here is time t an
d that the quantity y depends on t. Since y is dependen
t on t, it now becomes possible to optimize the value o
f y by controlling at which time t you will measure y.
Let’s Analyze
•  We model physical phenomena to help us pred
ict what will happen in the future. We do t
his by finding or constructing a function t
hat exhibits the behavior that has already
been observed. In the first example above,
we want to find the function . For example,
if , then we know that initially, there are
affected patients. After one hour, there ar
e affected patients.
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Prepared by:
Jayca R. Ignalig