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Can You Bake the Optimal Cake Using Calculus?

Can You Bake the Optimal Cake Using Calculus?

9 years ago by justcalculusBlog

Problem Description FiveThirtyEight’s Oliver Roeder challenged readers to maximize the volume of a cake comprised of three cylindrical tiers subject to the constraint that the cake must fit beneath a glass cone of a prescribed size in The Riddler: A mathematician who has a birthday… Read More

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