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Optimisation

Optimisation questions involve finding the best solution to a problem. Usually, that is the maximum or minimum value of a function. Questions on this topic require you to take information from a practical problem and write this as a function, then use differentiation to find the maximum or minimum value of this function by solving where the gradient is equal to zero. Often questions on this topic seem to have two...


Tags: differentiation, best, minimum, maximum

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