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snow_tiger [21]
3 years ago
11

Find the volume of the largest rectangular box in the first octant with three faces in the coordinate planes and one vertex in t

he plane x + 2y + 3z = 9
Mathematics
1 answer:
ratelena [41]3 years ago
8 0
The point (x,y,z) on the plane x+2y+3z=9 determines the volume of the box, since V(x,y,z)=xyz. Restricting the box to lie within the first octant is to say that x,y,z>0.

Let's do it via Lagrange multipliers. The Lagrangian is

L(x,y,z,\lambda)=xyz+\lambda(x+2y+3z-9)

with partial derivatives (set equal to 0)

L_x=yz+\lambda=0
L_y=xz+2\lambda=0
L_z=xy+3\lambda=0
L_\lambda=x+2y+3z-9=0

We have

L_y-2L_x=xz-2yz=z(x-2y)=0\implies z=0\text{ or }x=2y
L_z-3L_x=xy-3yz=y(x-3z)=0\implies y=0\text{ or }x=3z
2L_z-3L_y=2xy-3xz=x(2y-3z)=0\implies x=0\text{ or }2y=3z

We already assume x,y,z>0, so we can ignore those options, leaving us with x=x, y=\dfrac x2, and z=\dfrac x3. Substituting into the plane equation, we get

x+2\dfrac x2+3\dfrac x3=3x=9\implies x=3\implies y=\dfrac32\text{ and }z=1

So the box with largest volume has its vertex (the one opposite the vertex at the origin) in the plane at \left(3,\dfrac32,1\right), giving a volume of \dfrac92.
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