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You can swim two miles per hour and run six miles per hour. You are walking north along South Beach and see someone drowning half a mile out in the ocean and one mile north of you. What combination of running and swimming is the quickest way to reach the swimmer?
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Chapter 7, Problem 77P
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You can swim two miles per hour and run six miles per hour. You are walking north along South Beach and see someone drowning half a mile out in the ocean and one mile north of you. What combination of running and swimming is the quickest way to reach the swimmer?
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To determine: The combination of swimming and running to reach the swimmer quickly.
Non-linear programming (NLP):
Non-linear programming (NLP) is used in complex optimization problems where the objectives or constraints or sometimes both are non-linear functions of the decision variables. A model can be termed as non-linear for more than one reason.
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