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In the following question find the $(x,y)$ coordinates of the single stationary point $(a,b) \in D$ of the continuous function $f: D \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ :

$f(x,y) = \simplify[std]{{a} + {b}*e^(-(x-{c})^2-(y-{d})^2)}$

where

$D = \{(x,y): \simplify[std]{(x-{c})^2+(y-{d})^2}\} \le \var{r}$

That is, $D$ is a disk of radius $\simplify[std]{sqrt({r})}$ and centre $(\var{c},\var{d})$ .

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a	integer	8
c	integer	2
b	integer	8
d	integer	-7
s3	integer	1
s2	integer	1
s1	integer	1
s5	integer	-1
s4	integer	-1
r	integer	6

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The $(x,y)$ coordinates of the stationary point of a function of 2 variables $f(x,y)$ are given by solving
the following 2 equations for $x$ and $y$

$\begin{eqnarray*} \partial f \over \partial x &=&0\\ \\ \partial f \over \partial y &=&0 \end{eqnarray*}$

In this case you get two equations to solve for $x$ and $y$

$\begin{eqnarray*} \simplify[std]{{-2*b}*(x-{c})*e^(-(x-{c})^2-(y-{d})^2)}&=&0\\ \\ \simplify[std]{{-2*b}*(y-{d})*e^(-(x-{c})^2-(y-{d})^2)}&=&0 \end{eqnarray*}$
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$\simplify[std]{e^(-(x-{c})^2-(y-{d})^2)}$ in both equations as

$\simplify[std]{e^(-(x-{c})^2-(y-{d})^2)} \neq 0,\;\forall x,\;y$ .

On solving these we get

$x = \var{c},\;\;\;y=\var{d}$

So the stationary point is $(\var{c},\var{d}) \in D$ .

On substituting these values into $f(x,y)$ we get:

$f(\var{c},\var{d})=\simplify[std]{{a}+{b}*e^0={a+b}}$

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