THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS

THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS
On a calculus textbook problem
Arkady Kitover and Mehmet Orhon

Abstract

We consider generalizations of a well known elementary problem. A wire of the fixed length is cut into two pieces, one piece is bent into a circle and the second one into a square. What dimensions of the circle and the square will minimize their total area?

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Keywords: optimization problems; isoperimetric problem.

Pages:  24$-$31     

Volume  XIX ,  Issue  1 ,  2016