Exam 8: Functions of Several Variables
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The heat index tells you how hot it feels as a result of the combination of temperature and humidity. The figure below gives a contour diagram for the heat index as a function of temperature and humidity. If the humidity is 30%, what temperature feels like 90
? 


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Lift ticket sales, S, at a ski resort are a function of the price, p, of a ticket and the current number, n, of inches of snowpack on the mountain. Thus,
. Do you expect f to be an increasing or a decreasing function of n?

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A mop company can produce
mops using x units of capital and y units of labor, with production costs
dollars. With a budget of $550,000, the maximum production is 65,000 mops, using $400,000 in capital and $150,000 in labor. The Lagrange multiplier is
. Which of the following is true?



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The following is a contour diagram for
. Is fx
positive or negative? 



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The heat index tells you how hot it feels as a result of the combination of temperature and humidity. The figure below gives a contour diagram for the heat index as a function of temperature and humidity. Fix the humidity level at 50%. As the temperature rises, does the heat index rise more rapidly at milder temperatures (70
to 90
) or at very hot temperatures (90
to 110
)? 





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The demand, D, for gasoline at Station A is a function of the price, a, of gas at Station A and the price, b, of gas at Station B across the street. Thus,
. Do you expect
b to be positive or negative?


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The function
has a local maximum value of _____ when x = _____ and y = _____.

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The following figure is a contour diagram for the demand for pork as a function of the price of pork and the price of beef. Which axis corresponds to the price of beef? 

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The amount in dollars, A, spent weekly by a household on food is a function of the household's weekly income in dollars, I, and the number of people in the household, n. Thus,
. If AI (1000, 4) = a > 0, then which of the following is true?

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Let
Determine all local critical points. Are the local extrema also global extrema?

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Your monthly payment, C(s, t), on a car loan depends on the amount, s, of the loan (in thousands of dollars), and the time, t, required to pay it back (in months). What is the meaning of C(6, 24) = 200?
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A company sells two styles of jeans in quantities
and
at prices
and
respectively, with
and
in dollars. The quantities demanded depend on both
and
according to the formulas
and
.
Write a formula for total sales revenue as a function of
and
, and use it to determine what prices the company should charge to maximize sales revenue. They should charge $_____ for style
and $_____ for style
.














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Find all the critical points of
and classify each as maximum, minimum, or neither. Select all possible choices.

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A contour diagram of
is given in the following figure. Which one of the following statements is true? 


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You are in a nicely heated cabin in the winter. Deciding that it's too warm, you open a small window. Let T be the temperature in the room, t minutes after the window was opened, x feet from the window. Is T an increasing or decreasing function of x?
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A contour diagram of
is given in the following figure. Is there a global minimum near the point (5,3)? 


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The point (0, 2) is a critical point of
Classify it either as a local minimum, local maximum, or neither.

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