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#1 2013-01-20 04:43:27

cooljackiec
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inequailities

Given that

and
, what is the greatest value of x + y?


I see you have graph paper.
You must be plotting something
lol

#2 2013-01-20 06:57:30

scientia
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Re: inequailities


Let
and rewrite the inequalities in terms of
and
:




Eliminating
gives



So the maximum value of
is
.

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