By similarity, we have:
Can you proceed from here?
Find the length of the longest rod which can be carried horizontally around a corner from a corridor 8m wide into one 4m wide. (Without involving angles if possible)
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This is a classic problem . . .
Find the length of the longest rod which can be carried horizontally around a corner
from a corridor 8m wide into one 4m wide.
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. . Then: . .
We see that
. . Hence: .
Substitute into , set , and solve for maximum
I get (substituting for y into the square of the length) the following as the critical value:
I began with:
Implicitly differentiating with respect to , we have:
Since we must have , to find the extrema, we may equate:
Multiplying through by and distributing, we find:
Discarding the negative root, we have:
I suspect you have set it up like Soroban did, so your critical value may be different from what I have.