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Title Two Walls and Two Ladders – A Calculus Problem
Author ARRAY(0x1ca3674dd20)
Volume 3
Number 1


This paper deals with an extension of a classical Calculus problem: Two ladders are extended across two walls and joined at the top, and the sum of the lengths of the ladders is to be minimized. We derive a minimization problem for a function of two variables for this task and we inspect special cases. The software package Maple will be used in examples.