Simple differentiation - Part 4

Calculus Level 2

Sum of two numbers (a and b ) is 289
Find the minimum value of their product
Note - a & b are whole numbers

17 34 5 9574.563 -290 -344 None of these 289

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3 solutions

Parth Bhardwaj
Mar 8, 2015

a = 289 , b = 0 - product = 0

It's nice that you've given an example to prove your proposition but how about proving it too!

It'd be nice if you could provide a complete solution .

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 3 months ago

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I did not know the mathematical proof behind it but just did it logically !!!! THANK you for the inequality !!!!

Parth Bhardwaj - 6 years, 3 months ago

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You are welcome :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 3 months ago

But isn't -290 considered to be less tan 0? hence, a=-290, b=1

Mehul Arora - 6 years, 2 months ago

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a , b a,b are supposed to be whole numbers according to the question and whole numbers cannot be negative.

The set of whole numbers, denoted by W \mathbb{W} is equivalent to the set of non-negative integers.

Prasun Biswas - 6 years, 2 months ago

Read the question care fully - 'a and b are whole numbers' !!!!

Parth Bhardwaj - 6 years ago

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@Parth Bhardwaj Ohh. Okay xD :p xD

Mehul Arora - 6 years ago

@Azhaghu Roopesh M , AM-GM inequality won't work here. It gives you an upper bound for the product, not the lower bound which we want to find! A mathematical proof would be simply the multiplication of similarly oriented inequalities.

a , b W a 0 b 0 a b 0 ; a + b = k k Z + a,b\in\mathbb{W}\implies a\geq 0~\land~b\geq 0\implies ab\geq 0~;~a+b=k~\forall~k\in\mathbb{Z^+}

Note that multiplication of the inequalities is valid since they are similarly oriented and the equality cases occuring in the the final symmetric inequality ( at a = k , b = 0 or a = 0 , b = k (\textrm{at }a=k,b=0~\textrm{or}~a=0,b=k ) are in accordance with the starting inequalities. Also, the problem conditions are not violated. Also, the value of the sum doesn't matter. The answer remains the same.

Prasun Biswas - 6 years, 2 months ago

I don't know if I am right but the no. can be a = 290 and b = -1, and as "a" increases b decreases and hence product decreases.

Nikola Djuric
Feb 19, 2016

"0 is sometimes included in the list of "whole" numbers (Bourbaki 1968, Halmos 1974), but there seems to be no general agreement. Some authors also interpret "whole number" to mean "a number having fractional part of zero," making the whole numbers equivalent to the integers."

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WholeNumber.html

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