In a recent international sport competition, the top three countrieslong dash—country a, country b, and country clong dash—wo
n a total of 127127 medals. country b won 1313 more medals than country c. country a won 4141 more medals than the total amount won by the other two. how many medals did each of the top three countries win?
A minimum occurs where the first derivative is 0 (the tangent line is horizontal), and the second derivative is positive (concave up). The simplest example of this is a positive parabola, like y = x², which has a relative minimum at its vertex.
