Three reeds have lengths of 39 cm, 52 cm, and 65 cm. To weave a basket, you want to cut the reeds so that the resulting pieces are all the same length. How can you make the pieces as long as possible?

To make them as long as possible you cut them all to 39cm

answer: evaluate the objective function at each vertex to determine which - and -values, if any, maximize or minimize the function. example: find the minimum value and maximum value of the objective function f ( x , y ) = 4 x + 5 y , subject to the following constraints

answer: 42

use a calculator to find that 845/73 = 11.575

the whole part of the answer is 11. multiply this by 73 to get 11*73 = 803.

subtract that result from 845 to get 845 - 803 = 42