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We have been given that a colleague has been tutoring six students in 11th grade to prepare for the ACT. Student scores were as follows: 20, 18, 16, 15, 23, 20. We are asked to find the mean of the ACT scores.
We will use mean formula to solve our given problem.
Upon rounding to nearest whole number, we will get:
Therefore, the mean of the ACT scores is 19 and option 'c' is the correct choice.
Lagrange multipliers:
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In the first octant, we assume
, so we can ignore the caveats above. Now,
so that the only critical point in the region of interest is (1, 2, 2), for which we get a maximum value of
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We also need to check the boundary of the region, i.e. the intersection of
with the three coordinate axes. But in each case, we would end up setting at least one of the variables to 0, which would force 
, so the point we found is the only extremum.
In the first octant, we assume
so that the only critical point in the region of interest is (1, 2, 2), for which we get a maximum value of
We also need to check the boundary of the region, i.e. the intersection of