You are an orange farmer experimenting with a new fertilizer. Having divided your orchard into numerous sub-plots, you applied different concentrations of this fertilizer on each of the plots and measured the yield of oranges in kilograms per acre. It is worth noting that too little fertilizer had very little effect on the yield and too much fertilizer ended up stunting fruit growth and reducing your yield.

To work out the optimal fertilizer concentration, which two numerical methods would you need, and in which order would you need to apply them?

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To work out the optimal fertilizer concentration you would need two numerical methods 1 Gradient Des... View the full answer