Homework Help: grade 10 math

Posted by Sameul on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 7:31pm.

im stuck in this question,i tried everything but i failed... can u please help me.

find two numbers whose sum is 32 and whose product is a maximum.

please help me!!!

grade 10 math - Reiny, Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 8:09pm
why don't you make 3 columns,
first one x, second one y, third one xy
then

2 30 60
3 29 87
4 28 112
.
.

until xy, or the product, becomes as large as possible.

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