Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Optimization, minimum?

An oil refinery is located on the north bank of a straight river that is 1 km wide. A pipeline is to be constructed from the refinery to storage tanks located on the south bank of the river 10 km east of the refinery. The cost of laying pipe is $500,000 per km over land to a point P on the north bank and $1,000,000 per km under the river to the tanks. To minimize the cost of the pipeline, how far from the refinery should P be located?

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