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Suppose you want to find two positive numbers such that the sum of the first and twice the second is 64 and whose product is a maximum.

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Suppose you want to find two positive numbers such that the sum of the first and twice the second is 64 and whose product is a maximum. What is the constraint?
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The two numbers are 16 and 4. The sum of the first and twice the second is 16 + (2*4) = 64, and the product of the two numbers is 16*4 = 64, which is the maximum possible product for two numbers whose sum is 64.

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