We could actually answer this with precalc knowledge, but since we will need to actually find the values anyway it’s best to do this
with calculus. To do that, remember you will want to take the derivative and then factor it to make a sign chart. Wherever the sign
chart changes from negative to positive will be a minimum, and wherever it changes from positive to negative will be a maximum!
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Practice Problems: Local Extrema
For the following problems, let .
1 : How many local minimums does have? .
2 : How many local maximums does have? .
We could actually answer this with precalc knowledge, but since we will need to actually find the values anyway it’s best to do this
with calculus. To do that, remember you will want to take the derivative and then factor it to make a sign chart. Wherever the sign
chart changes from negative to positive will be a minimum, and wherever it changes from positive to negative will be a maximum!