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
.
(6x-2)(6x-2) = 36x-12x-12x+4 = 36x+4
Answer: 800
Divide 3200 by 4 to get 800.
2x-5 is the answer to the question
Answer:
(x+7)(x-7)
Step-by-step explanation:
x²-49
=x²-7²
=(x+7)(x-7)