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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2008 Paper 1 17 a iii Solution by
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Inside the triangle, both and are nonzero. Thus reduces to and , whose unique solution is . At that pointThe Hessian matrix has positive eigenvalues and , so this is a strict local minimum. It is also the minimum on the closed triangle: on the boundary, inside, and there is no other interior stationary point. Therefore
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