I assume there are some plus signs that aren't rendering for some reason, so that the plane should be

.
You're minimizing

subject to the constraint

. Note that

and

attain their extrema at the same values of

, so we'll be working with the squared distance to avoid working out some slightly more complicated partial derivatives later.
The Lagrangian is

Take your partial derivatives and set them equal to 0:

Adding the first three equations together yields

and plugging this into the first three equations, you find a critical point at

.
The squared distance is then

, which means the shortest distance must be

.
Answer:
C
Step-by-step explanation:
Hello There!
so
y = -5x^2 + 8x +4
where y = height of ball and x = seconds after ball was thrown
The plus 4 is the y intercept and because y equals height of ball the 4 would represent the height that the ball was thrown at
<em>~TheMathWiz</em>
Answer:
a)
Step-by-step explanation:
hello,
because of the end behaviour the constant in
should be positive so we have a) or d)
f(0)=-3 in both cases
for A) f(x)=

so f(x)=0 for 
so the correct answer is A)
hope this helps
Answer:
c
Step-by-step explanation:
3 and 3/7 ok hope it helps