Rahman W.
asked • 12/04/19graphing question calculus
f= (1/x^8) - (2x 10^8/x^4)
Use calculus to find the intervals of increase and decrease and intervals of concavity (up and down)
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Mario K. answered • 12/06/19
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Use derivatives to find the change of curvature of your function.
Where the derivative equals 0 is your maxima/minima.
If you have max/min/max then you have a concave up, and min/max/min is concave down
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Mark H.
The 2nd expression is unclear--it looks like "x" was used to mean times In other words, did you mean (2*10^8) / x^4 for the 2nd term? "*" is a common symbol for multiplication12/04/19