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ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2022/discrete-mathematics-continuous-mathematics-and-probability-resit/4/e/solution
Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2022 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics and probability resit 4 e Solution by
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Both terms and are nonnegative, and they vanish simultaneously only at . That point satisfies . Consequentlyand the global minimum is unique. No Lagrange multiplier calculation is needed: nonnegativity gives a lower bound attained at a feasible point.
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