Amusic competition on television had five elimination rounds. after each elimination, only half of the contestants were sent to the next round. the table below shows the number of contestants in each round of the competition:

answer: evaluate the objective function at each vertex to determine which - and -values, if any, maximize or minimize the function. example: find the minimum value and maximum value of the objective function f ( x , y ) = 4 x + 5 y , subject to the following constraints