Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH105/April 2014/Question 04 (a)
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Question 04 (a) |
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Let . Find all critical points of and classify each as a local maximum, local minimum or saddle point. |
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Calculate the critical points. At a critical point and are equal to zero. Then use the second derivative test to check if the critical point is a maximum, minimum or saddle point. |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. Compute the derivatives:
Set and to find critical points:
From the first equality we get . Plugging this into the second equality, we get . Solving it gives and . This yields the critical points , and . For , , and , so we have a saddle point because . For , , , and (and thus it could be a local max or local min). Then, because , we conclude it is a local minimum. |