Carly always gives 5.5% of her paycheck to a charity for kids. Last week, she worked 32.25 hours. Her rate of pay is $8.79 an ho
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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 
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You're minimizing
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