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Ghella [55]
3 years ago
9

An oil refinery is located on the north bank of a straight river that is 2 km wide. A pipeline is to be constructed from the ref

inery to storage tanks located on the south bank of the river 3 km east of the refinery. The cost of laying pipe is $400,000 per km over land to a point P on the north bank and $800,000 per km under the river to the tanks. To minimize the cost of the pipeline, how far from the refinery should P be located? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
Mathematics
1 answer:
hichkok12 [17]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

P is exactly 3km east from the oil refinery.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's d be the distance in km from the oil refinery to point P. So the horizontal distance from P to the storage is 3 - d and the vertical distance is 2. Hence the diagonal distance is:

\sqrt{(3 - d)^2 + 2^2} = \sqrt{(3 - d)^2 + 4}

So the cost of laying pipe under water with this distance is

800000\sqrt{(3 - d)^2 + 4}

And the cost of laying pipe over land from the refinery to point P is 400000d. Hence the total cost:

800000\sqrt{(3 - d)^2 + 4} + 400000d

We can find the minimum value of this by taking the 1st derivative and set it to 0

800000\frac{2*0.5*(3-d)(-1)}{\sqrt{(3 - d)^2 + 4}} + 400000 = 0

We can move the first term over to the right hand side and divide both sides by 400000

1 = 2\frac{3 - d}{\sqrt{(3 - d)^2 + 4}}

\sqrt{(3 - d)^2 + 4} = 6 - 2d

From here we can square up both sides

(3 - d)^2 + 4 = (6 - 2d)^2

9 - 6d + d^2 + 4 = 36 - 24d + 4d^2

3d^2-18d+27 = 0

d^2 - 6d + 9 = 0

(d - 3)^2 = 0

d -3 = 0

d = 3

So the cost of pipeline is minimum when P is exactly 3km east from the oil refinery.

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