Find m to the equation:
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Kiana Harper
Answered question
2022-05-21
Find m to the equation:
My try: From and :
From
And I don't know how to contine, The result is:
Answer & Explanation
Diego Mathews
Beginner2022-05-22Added 6 answers
From your last expression, after division by , the value of is
To maximize this we find its derivative and get
So there is a critical point at and we need to set the fourth degree polynomial in the numerator to zero. [The denominator is positive for all ]. It is maybe just luck, but if we substitute into the fourth degree polynomial it becomes which is quadratic in and leads to [We cannot use the negative sign choice here since we need . The negative choice corresponds to the pair of nonreal conjugate complex solutions to the fourth degree equation.] So we now have three critical points for , namely 1/2 and . The value of m is largest among these when and for this we have Note also that since clearly as we can be sure the maximum of must occur at one of the above critical points. After a closer look it turns out the maximum occurs at both of the critical points . This seems unusual since the expression for is not symmetrical around , but somehow the two critical points, and their values, are symmetrical around