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    This document discusses how to determine if a point is a maximum, minimum, or inflection point of a function based on the first and second derivatives. It states that if the first derivative is 0 at a point, it could be an extremum; if the second derivative test is also used, the signs of the first and second derivatives on either side of the point determine if it is a maximum or minimum. An inflection point occurs when the second derivative is 0. The document also describes how the signs of the first and second derivatives relate to a function being increasing, decreasing, convex, or concave.

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    This document discusses how to determine if a point is a maximum, minimum, or inflection point of a function based on the first and second derivatives. It states that if the first derivative is 0 at a point, it could be an extremum; if the second derivative test is also used, the signs of the first and second derivatives on either side of the point determine if it is a maximum or minimum. An inflection point occurs when the second derivative is 0. The document also describes how the signs of the first and second derivatives relate to a function being increasing, decreasing, convex, or concave.

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    Topic 3: Application of derivative of functions of one variable.

    If f 0 (x0 ) = 0
    then the point x0 may be a maximum or a minimum of f:

    If f 0 (x0 ) = 0,
    f 0 (x) > 0 for < x < x0 , and
    f 0 (x) < 0 for x0 < x <
    then the point x0 is a maximum of f:

    If f 0 (x0 ) = 0,
    0
    f (x) < 0 for < x < x0 , and
    f 0 (x) > 0 for x0 < x <
    then the point x0 is a minimum of f:

    If f 0 (x) > 0
    then f is increasing at x.

    If f 0 (x) < 0
    then f is decreasing at x.

    If f 0 (x0 ) = 0, and
    f 00 (x) < 0 for < x < x0 , x0 < x <
    then the point x0 is a maximum of f:

    If f 0 (x0 ) = 0, and
    00
    f (x) > 0 for < x < x0 , x0 < x <
    then the point x0 is a minimum of f:

    If f 00 (x0 ) = 0
    then the point x0 may be an in‡exion point of f:

    If f 00 (x0 ) = 0,
    00
    f (x) > 0 for < x < x0 , and
    f 00 (x) < 0 for x0 < x <
    then the point x0 is an in‡exion point of f:

    If f 00 (x0 ) = 0,
    f 00 (x) < 0 for < x < x0 , and
    f 00 (x) > 0 for x0 < x <
    then the point x0 is an in‡exion point of f:

    1
    If f 00 (x) > 0
    then f is convex at x.

    f f 00 (x) < 0
    then f is concave at x.

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