The volume of the largest rectangular box which lies in the first octant with three faces in the coordinate planes and its one of the vertex in the plane displaystyle{x}+{2}{y}+{3}{z}={6} by using Lagrange multipliers.

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The volume of the largest rectangular box which lies in the first octant with three faces in the coordinate planes and its one of the vertex in the plane

x + 2 y + 3 z = 6

by using Lagrange multipliers.

Answer 1

Definition used:
" The Lagrange multipliers defined as

\nabla f (x, y, z) = λ \nabla g (x, y, z) .

This equation can be expressed as

f_{x} = λ g_{x}, f_{y} = λ g_{y}, f_{z} = λ g_{z} and g (x, y, z) = k

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Calculation:
Let the volume of the rectangular box be

V = f (x, y, z) = x y z where x > 0, y > 0, z > 0 .

Thus, the maximize function

f (x, y, z) = x y z

subject to the constraint

g (x, y, z) = x + 2 y + 3 z = 6 .

The Lagrange multipliers

\nabla f (x, y, z) = λ \nabla g (x, y, z)

is computed as follows,

\nabla f (x, y, z) = λ \nabla g (x, y, z)

⟨ f_{x}, f_{y}, f_{z} ⟩ = λ ⟨ g_{x}, g_{y}, g_{z} ⟩

⟨ \begin{matrix} f_{x} (x y z) \\ f_{y} (x y z) \\ f_{z} (x y z) \end{matrix} ⟩ = λ ⟨ \begin{matrix} g_{x} (x + 2 y + 3 z) \\ g_{y} (x + 2 y + 3 z) \\ g_{z} (x + 2 y + 3 z) \end{matrix} ⟩

⟨ y z, x z, x y ⟩ = λ ⟨ 1, 2, 3 ⟩

Thus, the value of

\nabla f (x, y, z) = λ \nabla g (x, y, z) i s ⟨ y z, x z, x y ⟩ = λ ⟨ 1, 2, 3 ⟩ .

By the definition,

⟨ y z, x z, x y ⟩ = λ ⟨ 1, 2, 3 ⟩

can be expressed as follows,

y z = λ (1)

x z = 2 λ (2)

x y = 3 λ (3)

From the equations (1), (2) and (3),

y z = \frac{x z}{2} = \frac{x y}{3}

Consider

y z = \frac{x z}{2}

and compute the value of y,

y z = \frac{x z}{2}

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The volume of the largest rectangular box which lies in the first octant with three faces in the coordinate planes and its one of the vertex in the plane displaystyle{x}+{2}{y}+{3}{z}={6} by using Lagrange multipliers.

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