4.4 Modeling and Optimization
Objective:
SWBAT solve application problems
involving finding minimum or maximum
values of functions
Optimization
• The term optimization means to find the best way
to do something, meaning we want to find an
(absolute) maximum or minimum value.
• A big difference between optimization problems
and problems we have seen so far is that the
equation must be written by you! Also, you must
find the interval (think about a real life domain).
Let’s think about our domain.
What is the smallest value x
can be? What is the largest
value x can be?