Paper 3, Section , D
Part IB, 2017
(a) A Pringle crisp can be defined as the surface
Use the method of Lagrange multipliers to find the minimum and maximum values of on the boundary of the Pringle crisp and the positions where these occur.
(b) A farmer wishes to construct a grain silo in the form of a hollow vertical cylinder of radius and height with a hollow hemispherical cap of radius on top of the cylinder. The walls of the cylinder cost per unit area to construct and the surface of the cap costs per unit area to construct. Given that a total volume is desired for the silo, what values of and should be chosen to minimise the cost?