## nenadmatematika 4 years ago Choose c so that y=5x-7 is tangent to y=x^2+cx

1. 08bkrishna

you havent said at what point on the second graph, c could be loads of different values

oh, thank you for that!! :D that's what I was thinking, it seemed to me like incomplete task :D

3. 08bkrishna

if they did give you the point, you would firstly differentiate y, then set y' = 5 and solve for c given the value of x in the question

4. 08bkrishna

actually, you could also solve for c by taking eq1 from eq2, because you would get a quadratic, that is probably why they didnt give a point

thank you very much, I'm actually good at this...My younger brother asked me to help him about this, and I got stucked.........Surely he didn't send me complete task :D

6. 08bkrishna

actually, this may be the whole task, as you can solve for where the two graphs cross (as at the tangent point the two graphs are equal. so you have to solve 0 = x^2 + (c-5)x + 7

I tried and I get some ugly values for c......

8. 08bkrishna

I'm just guessing at what the question wants. seeing how complicated the question is getting, it is likely that the question is just missing the information on the actual tangent point

that's right I'm sure that's the problem!!! thank you for your effort :D

10. 08bkrishna

you're welcome :)

11. asnaseer

the slope of the tangent to $$y=x^2+cx$$ at any point would be given by its derivative:$y'=2x+c$We want the slope to equal 5 (since its equation must be $$y=5x-7$$) so we get:$5=2x+c$$\therefore x=\frac{5-c}{2}\tag{a}$Since the line $$y=5x-7$$ is supposed to be a tangent to the curve $$y=x^2+cx$$, then it must touch the curve at some point, therefore:$5x-7=x^2+cx\tag{b}$Substituting (a) into (b) we get:$5*\frac{5-c}{2}-7=(\frac{5-c}{2})^2+c*\frac{5-c}{2}=\frac{(5-c)^2}{4}+\frac{c(5-c)}{2}$multiplying both sides by 4 gives:$10(5-c)-28=(5-c)^2+2c(5-c)$$50-10c-28=25-10c+c^2+10c-2c^2$$c^2-10c-3=0$Solve this to get the two possible values for c.

that's what I got and when I saw sqrt(112) I knew that something is wrong :D thank you!

13. asnaseer

yw

14. niki

find the slope of each line i.e y=5x-7 and y=x^2+cx slope for the first one is 5(differentiate wrt x) and the other is (2x+c).the 2 lines are perpendicular hence (2x+c).5=-1 hence c=-1/5-2x