Homework Help: calculus

Posted by soffy on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 1:01pm.

to find the possible relative extrema of the function f(x,y) subject to the constraint g(x,y)=8, the lagrangian function based on the lagrange multiplier λ is given by....

calculus - Steve, Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 1:20pm
solve the equations

∇f(x,y) = λ∇g(x,y)
g(x,y) = 8

plug in the solutions and pick the extrema.

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