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Maximum volume/space or minimum materials

Maximum volume/space or minimum materials. Design your own assignment. Let’s look at a couple of ideas. Boxes 1. A piece of card is 20cm by 20cm The side of the squares removed from each corner is x cm A tray is made by folding the card

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Maximum volume/space or minimum materials

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  1. Maximum volume/space or minimum materials Design your own assignment

  2. Let’s look at a couple of ideas

  3. Boxes 1 • A piece of card is 20cm by 20cm • The side of the squares removed from each corner is x cm • A tray is made by folding the card • Find the maximum volume, V cm3, that can be held inside the tray

  4. Boxes 1 (solution) 20 – 2x • Volume of the box • V = x(20 – 2x)(20 – 2x) • V = x(400 – 80x + 4x2) • V = 400x – 80x2 + 4x3 20

  5. Boxes 2 • Find dV/dx and the 2nd derivative • Solve the equation when dV/dx = 0 • Hence find the values of x for which the function V has turning points • and establish the maximum volume for the box that can be made from the sheet of card

  6. Boxes 2 (solution 1) • V = 400x – 80x2 + 4x3 • Let V = V(x), • So dV/dx = V ’(x) • and the 2nd derivative = V ’’(x) • V ’(x) = 400 – 160x + 12x2 • V ’’(x) = -160 + 24x • V will have turning points where V ’(x) = 0 • So 400 – 160x + 12x2 = 0 • 100 – 40x + 3x2 = 0

  7. Boxes 2 (solution 2) • 100 – 40x + 3x2 = 0 • Is this solved by formula or factorisation? • The determinant, b2 – 4ac = (-40)2 – 4.3.(100) • = 1600 – 1200 = 400 = 202, a square number • So factorise: • 100 – 40x + 3x2 = (10 – x)(10 – 3x) = 0 • x = 10 or 10/3 • But given x < 10 (half the width) x = 10 is not a reasonable solution for this situation

  8. Boxes 2 (solution 3) • x = 10/3 – is it a maximum? • V’’(x) = -160 + 24x • When x = 10/3 • V’’(10/3) = - 160 + 24 x 10/3 < 0 •  maximum • Vmax = 400(10/3) – 80(10/3)2 + 4(10/3)3 • Vmax = 593 cm3 (3 sf)

  9. Start to think about assignments • Devise a packaging problem that will either use the least materials or hold the most volume

  10. Start to think about assignments • It could be a tin can, in which case you would have 2 variables (radius and height) + one fixed quantity (volume) • So you would find an expression for calculating the fixed quantity and then use this expression to get rid of either the height or the radius

  11. Start to think about assignments • Then form an expression for the quantity you want to make as small (or as large) as possible • Differentiate it, put = 0 and find the value of x that will give the minimum (or maximum) • Hence find the other dimension and the value of the material or volume that you require

  12. Let me demonstrate • Say I want to use the minimum metal to make a can to hold 500ml ( which is the same as 500 cm3) • If r cm is the radius and h cm is the height, the volume V = r2h • and the metal used M = 2r2 + 2rh • So if V = 500 then r2h = 500 • I will eliminate h (its easier than a squared term) so h = 500/ r2

  13. Let me demonstrate • Using h = 500/ r2 • M = 2r2 + 2rh = 2r2 + 2r x 500/ r2 • M = 2r2 + 2 x 500/ r = 2r2 + 1000r-1 • So dM/dr = 4r - 1000r-2 • When dM/dr = 0 we will have turning point • So 4r - 1000r-2 = 0 4r = 1000r-2 • 4r3 = 1000  r3 = 250/  r = 4.30(3 sf)

  14. Let me demonstrate • r = 4.30(3 sf) • Is this a minimum? • M’’(x) = 4 + 2000r-3 • At r = 4.30 • M’’(4.30) = 4 + 2000/(4.30)3 > 0  a minimum • So h = 500  (18.5) =8.60 (3sf) • M= 2  x 18.5 + 2 x 4.3 x 8.6 = 349 cm2 (3 sf)

  15. Don’t think you can do that one! • If you did a can, I would expect for instance that you would decide the base and the top would be double thickness, so you would end up with different answers • or that 2 different metals would be used with a different unit cost for each

  16. But there are dozens of others • Boxes of all shapes, with and without lids • What about a Toblerone box? • Or how about swimming pools, with a shallow end and a deep end? Would the cement be equally thick all over? • What about ice cream cone packaging? • What about a wooden play house? (remember the door!)

  17. Some useful formulaeA cone • Volume: 1/3 r2h • Surface area: • 2r is the length of the circle at the top of the cone • The curved surface of the cone comes from a circle radius 2s • So area of circle radius s is s2 and the cone has r/s of it • So area = s2 x r/s = sr • where s = (h2 + r2) r h s

  18. Some useful formulaePart of a sphere (upside down!) • Radius of sphere: r     Radius of base: r1     Height: h     Surface area: S     Volume: V •      r = (h2+r12)/(2h)     S = 2 rh     V = (/6)(3r12+h2)h • http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/formulas/ for lots of other formulae

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