Electronic Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28-31, 2004

Paper S037

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-43792-6, Copyright (C) 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc.


An Optimal Computer Facility Location

William P. Fox


Department of Mathematics
Francis Marion University
PO Box 100547
Florence, SC 29501


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William H. Richardson, Jr.


Department of Mathematics
Francis Marion University
PO Box 100547
Florence, SC 29501


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ABSTRACT

Optimization problems are typically taught graphically in college algebra (precalculus) and later in calculus with differentiation. We tackle a straightforward optimization problem whose model is easy but the solution (via calculus) is virtually impossible. We demonstrate several techniques for achieving good solutions using MAPLE.

Keyword(s): optimization, Maple