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Funny Stuff ! (Posted on 2002-06-20) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Given:
   a,b,c >0 and a+b+c=1 ;
   P=(1/a)+(2/b)+(3/c);
1)Find the minimum value of P;
2)Does P have maximum value ?

See The Solution Submitted by vohonam    
Rating: 3.4286 (7 votes)

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Oh Well | Comment 3 of 19 |
(In reply to re: solution (maybe)- No by vohonam)

About all i remember about maxima and minima is that they almost always occur at critical points and/or endponts/boundaries, so I examined the boundaries and found that there is no maximun, and I tried to figure out where the critical point(s) was/were. I suppose I "guessed" wrong.
  Posted by TomM on 2002-06-20 20:47:41

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