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Ah, thanks. It is my first post as you see, and its not homework, but it is in a textbook. I am starting math again by myself and its hard when you don't have anyone to ask. (Im working with political sciences;)

Hi! Probably quite easy for you guys (Im not even sure I am in the right thread). The assignment is in constrained optimization, and we're supposed to use lagrange to find the point on the parabola y=x^2 which is closes to (2, 1). I've been trying for a while and can't seem to find the right...