Thursday, February 11, 2010

How would you go about determining if this problem is true or false?

The second derivative test for functions of two variables yields no information about whether the point (2, -5/6) is an extreme or a saddle point for the function f(x, y) = x^2 + 6xy + 9y^2 + x + 3y + 1.











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FalseHow would you go about determining if this problem is true or false?
you need to find the hessian, and f_xx


if hessian =0 then it is true.


if hessian is not 0, then it is false.How would you go about determining if this problem is true or false?
uhm... R u always trying to burn ur brain on a Sunday afternoon or is ur cable turned off?

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