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Among all pairs of numbers with a sum of 185, find the pair whose product is maximum. write your answers as fractions reduced to lowest terms.

User Tomjosef
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Two numbers that we can chose here are half of 185 each.

As they will give us maximum product.

So the two numbers would be 185/2 and 185/2


Product = (185)/(2) * (185)/(2)

On multiplying we will get,

34225/4

Answer : The two numbers are 185/2 and 185/2.

User Matt Blackmon
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The product of the two numbers that are each half of 185 will be the maximum
.. 185/2 and 185/2
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