Solve
-Find Two Numbers Whose Sum Is 56 and Whose $x$

question 11

Multiple Choice

Solve.
-Find two numbers whose sum is 56 and whose product is as large as possible. [Hint: Let $x$ and $56 - x$ be the two numbers. Their product can be described by the function $f ( x ) = x ( 56 - x )$ .]

• A) 28 and 84
• B) \(\frac { 1 } { 28 }\) and \(\frac { 13 } { 28 }\)
• C) 28 and 28
• D) 27 and 29