im stuck in this question,i tried everything but i failed... can u please help me.

Question

find two numbers whose sum is 32 and whose product is a maximum.

please help me!!!

Answer 1

why don't you make 3 columns,
first one x, second one y, third one xy
then

2 30 60
3 29 87
4 28 112
.
.

until xy, or the product, becomes as large as possible.