MAT-1110 Midterm: MATH 1110 App State summer2017 Test3 answer key

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Name: answer key: (20 points) a problem of extremes. Show your work! (a) let f (x) = 4 x4 x3 + 4x 3. Note that f (x) = x3 3x2 + 4 = (x 2)2(x + 1: find the critical points of f (x). Then x = 2 is an evenly repeated root, so f (x) stays positive. Finally, x = 1 is oddly repeated, so f (x) becomes negative. 2 f (x) switches from decreasing to increasing at x = 1, so x = 1 is a local minimum . On the other hand, f (x) is increasing before x = 2 and then keeps on increasing after x = 2. Therefore, x = 2 is neither a local min. or max. Alternatively, we could compute f (x) = 3x2 6x and see that f ( 1) = 9 > 0 so that x = 1 is a local minimum (by the second derivative test).

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