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Examples


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relative extrema: f has a relative maximum at x=-1, and f has a relative minimum at x=1. The interval that f is concave up or concave down:

Notice that tex2html_wrap_inline471Therefore the function f is concave upward on tex2html_wrap_inline475 and concave downward on tex2html_wrap_inline477 The inflection points of f are at tex2html_wrap_inline481 and


Wei-Chi Yang
Wed Nov 13 19:45:32 EST 1996