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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2023 Prelims Mathematics III 3 c ii Solution by
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On the constraint , substitute to obtainTherefore the two global minima areEvery pair is allowed on either smooth branch , so these are also the only local extrema. There is no local maximum or global maximum: the displayed positive quadratic in has no other stationary point and is unbounded above. At the minima , consistent with the hypothesis in part i.
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