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Can You Bake the Optimal Cake Using Calculus?

Can You Bake the Optimal Cake Using Calculus?

10 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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