 Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/ia/paper-2/6c/i/solution

Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03

\nabla U = (3 x^{2} - 3 + y^{2}, 2 y (x + 1))

(\pm 1, 0)

(1, 0)

diag (6, 4)

, making it the local minimum;

(- 1, 0)

is degenerate and not a minimum.

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