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Homework Help: Calculus

Posted by German on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 7:25pm.

If a tangent line is drawn to the parabola y = 3 - x^2 at any point on the curve in the first quadrant, a triangle is formed with the axes. At what point on the curve should the tangent be drawn to form a triangle of least area?

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