Calculus 4.1 Increasing and Decreasing Functions

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Summary

TLDRChapter 4 focuses on curve sketching, particularly on increasing and decreasing functions using derivatives. It explains how to find maximum and minimum values by setting the first derivative to zero. The chapter covers the concepts of tangent slopes, critical values, and the first derivative test to determine the behavior of functions. Examples include analyzing cubic functions and applying the quotient rule for derivatives. The importance of identifying intercepts, asymptotes, and intervals of increase and decrease is emphasized, along with practical applications in homework problems.

Takeaways

  • 📈 Increasing functions have positive slopes.
  • 📉 Decreasing functions have negative slopes.
  • ⚖️ Critical values are found by setting the derivative to zero.
  • 🔍 The first derivative test helps identify max/min points.
  • 🟢 Y-intercepts are found by evaluating the function at x=0.
  • 🔴 Vertical asymptotes occur where the denominator is zero.
  • 🌊 Horizontal asymptotes describe end behavior as x approaches infinity.
  • 🧮 Use the quotient rule for derivatives of rational functions.
  • 📊 Analyze the sign of the derivative for increasing/decreasing intervals.
  • 📏 The leading coefficient affects the end behavior of polynomial functions.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Chapter 4 focuses on curve sketching, specifically on increasing and decreasing functions using derivatives. The first derivative is set to zero to find maximum and minimum values, which is a key concept from previous studies in advanced functions.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    An increasing function is defined where if x1 < x2, then f(x2) > f(x1), indicating positive tangent slopes. Conversely, a decreasing function occurs when f(x2) < f(x1), leading to negative tangent slopes. The position of tangent lines relative to the function is also noted, which is crucial for understanding inflection points.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Examples are provided using a cubic function, where the derivative is calculated to find critical values. The critical points are determined by setting the derivative to zero, and the function's behavior around these points is analyzed to identify local maxima and minima using the first derivative test.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The analysis continues with a rational function, where vertical and horizontal asymptotes are identified. The x and y intercepts are calculated, and the first derivative is used to find critical values, which are then tested to determine whether they correspond to maxima or minima.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:28:49

    The summary concludes with a discussion on the importance of the first derivative test in determining the behavior of functions, including increasing and decreasing intervals, and emphasizes the need for careful analysis when sketching graphs.

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Video Q&A

  • What is the first derivative test?

    The first derivative test involves checking the sign of the derivative before and after critical points to determine if the function is increasing or decreasing.

  • How do you find critical values?

    Critical values are found by setting the first derivative equal to zero and solving for x.

  • What is the significance of positive and negative slopes?

    Positive slopes indicate increasing functions, while negative slopes indicate decreasing functions.

  • How do you determine maximum and minimum points?

    Maximum and minimum points are determined by analyzing the sign changes of the first derivative around critical values.

  • What is the role of the second derivative?

    The second derivative can be used to determine concavity and confirm whether a critical point is a maximum or minimum.

  • What are vertical and horizontal asymptotes?

    Vertical asymptotes occur where the function approaches infinity, while horizontal asymptotes describe the behavior of the function as x approaches infinity.

  • How do you find intercepts?

    X-intercepts are found by setting the function equal to zero, while Y-intercepts are found by evaluating the function at x=0.

  • What is the importance of the leading coefficient in polynomial functions?

    The leading coefficient determines the end behavior of the polynomial function.

  • What is the difference between critical values and critical points?

    Critical values refer to the x-values where the derivative is zero, while critical points include both x and y coordinates.

  • How do you analyze a function for increasing and decreasing intervals?

    You analyze the sign of the first derivative to determine where the function is increasing or decreasing.

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    chapter 4 deals with curve sketching and
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    4.1 talks about the increasing and
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    decreasing functions so at this point
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    you've done um increasing and decreasing
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    intervals you did that in grade 12
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    Advanced functions but in in this case
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    we're going to be using the derivative
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    to help sketch functions and we're going
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    to be finding the Max and minimum values
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    by setting the first derivative equal to
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    zero so in this section although the uh
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    um the theory part is quite simple there
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    are a number of different types of
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    questions that I will be covering that
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    is that are part of your homework okay
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    so the first thing we want to talk about
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    is where how do you determine an
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    increasing
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    function so the description is that if
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    X1 is less than x2 in other words say
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    this was one and this is four that's all
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    that means and F of X2 is greater than F
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    at
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    X1 then the tangent slopes are positive
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    so you can see that if I drew tangent
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    points to this curve they would all have
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    positive slopes and the function is
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    increasing okay so that's pretty simple
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    you can read from left to right so in
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    other words if I go from left to right
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    and the function gets higher then it's
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    increasing so sometimes the descriptions
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    are a little worrier than they need to
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    be and again this is a case here where
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    it says X1 is less than X2 so let's say
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    this is one this is two and F at
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    X2 is less than F at X1 and the tangent
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    slopes are negative so here if I drew
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    tangent slope to this
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    line um maybe it was increasing a little
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    bit there that would not be true so from
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    here to here the function is definitely
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    decreasing because the tangent slopes
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    are negative you should also note that
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    the tangents in a decreasing interval
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    the tangent lines are above the function
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    whereas when it was increasing the
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    tangent lines are underneath the
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    function and that's going to be
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    important on um another section that we
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    do when we talk about points of
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    inflection so it's decreasing on the
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    interval X1 to X2 or wherever um you're
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    asked to describe it
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    for so I want to do some examples the
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    first is going to be using the
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    derivative graph the following function
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    okay so using your knowledge from grade
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    12 Advanced functions you know this is a
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    cubic function you know that it has a
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    positive leading coefficient and you
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    know that it's going to start in
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    quadrant 3 and end in quadrant 1 so
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    don't just rely on your Calculus
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    derivative techniques use your knowledge
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    from the previous course and you can
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    always flip back and forth to to check
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    your answers using either calculus or
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    using your Advanced functions knowledge
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    so the first thing I would do is take
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    the derivative so y Prime here is 3x^2 -
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    3 and don't forget that you must say for
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    critical values CVS set y Prime equal to
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    zero so when I set this equal to zero
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    and I factor out of
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    three then I can see that I still have a
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    difference of squares here that I can
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    Factor again and what I'm trying to do
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    is find the places where the slope is
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    zero so if a function has zero slope it
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    means I'm either at a maximum or a
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    minimum value right so therefore x = -1
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    or one and these are the critical values
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    so critical values at minus one and one
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    now if I want to know what the height of
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    the function is and this is where you
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    have to be careful that you're plugging
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    these values back back into the original
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    function to find the critical points so
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    y when x = -1 so if this had been f of x
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    I could just say F minus one but it's y
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    so I'm going to write it like this and
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    this is quite a legitimate um way to
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    describe it so -3
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    -1 oh -1 + 1 so -1 cubed is -1 that's +
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    3 + 1 so that's 4 - 1 is
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    three so that means there is a critical
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    point at the critical point is at uh Min
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    -1 and 3 and you do the same thing for
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    when x equals 1 so you would say okay
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    that means y when xal 1 now y make sure
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    you're not plugging it back into the
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    derivative because obviously if I plug
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    back one into the derivative function
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    I'm going get zero and that would just
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    be not right okay so we put in 1 Cub - 3
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    * 1 + 1 that's 1 + 1 is 2 - 3 is -1 and
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    the other critical point
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    is 1 and minus1 so I'm going to put
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    those on my graph 1 and minus one and
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    Min - one and 1 2 3 and that's
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    here and I know I'm going from this
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    quadrant to this quadrant so my function
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    would have to go oh might probably be a
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    good idea to find the Y intercept the Y
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    intercept for y intercept you're going
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    to
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    set and you always write this out set x
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    equal to zero
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    so Y
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    intercept is I put in a 0 here 0 0 Y
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    intercept is 1 so it's going to go
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    through here now now I know this
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    function is going to go like this right
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    because I know a little bit about cubic
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    functions I know it had a positive
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    leading coefficient so what we want to
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    know though is is this the point was it
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    a maximum or a minimum and obviously you
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    know that because of what you know from
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    Advanced functions but you can also see
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    that as I go from left to right and I'm
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    going to write a little derivative graph
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    here I'm going to to call it y Prime and
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    this is also a very legitimate way of
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    doing what we call a first derivative
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    test now first derivative tests aren't
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    really talked about until the next
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    chapter but I think it's critical for
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    your understanding of what we're doing
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    here right now that you know what we're
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    doing so if I put in my critical points
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    here the critical values right these
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    ones here I put them on my graph and I
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    check points to the left and right of
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    these values so if I put in 2 into the
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    derivative okay that's why I wrote y
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    Prime here this is a y Prime because I'm
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    checking the slopes so if I put in a
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    number less than -1 into the derivative
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    here let's say I put in -2 that would be
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    12 - 3 is 9 all I care about is that it
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    is positive so the function is
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    increasing and then if I go from minus
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    one to one say I put in zero here into y
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    Prime I would get a negative value which
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    means the function is
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    decreasing and then if I put in two
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    obviously I'm going to get the same
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    answer as I did when I put in -2 because
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    I squared it so 12 - 3 9 positive so
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    this shows that there is a minimum this
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    is a minimum here and this is a maximum
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    so these are local mins and Maxs on the
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    interval so um
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    this critical point Min
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    -13
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    -13 minus one I guess I could have put
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    those on there so Min
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    -13 is a
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    maximum and 1 and minus1 is a minimum
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    value so that's what you're going to do
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    with this what we call a first
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    derivative test first derivative test is
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    basically checking the derivative
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    function to the left and right of the
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    critical values to see if the slope is
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    increasing or decreasing and again
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    remember that we're talking about the
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    slope so sometimes students forget which
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    equation do I plug these things into so
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    if you're checking the slopes so I want
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    to know that was positive that's
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    negative I'm using Y
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    Prime okay let's move on to second
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    question this one is asking you to graph
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    this function X x^2 + 1 so so we have
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    all kinds of things that we need to find
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    when you're doing um a graphing analysis
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    and later on in the chapter there's a
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    complete algorithm of the the things
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    that you need to check for so basically
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    we're looking to see is there a vertical
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    ASM toote and you know for a vertical
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    ASM toote that means the denominator um
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    it's a value that makes the denominator
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    zero and in this case there is no value
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    because if I set this equal to zero
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    let's see if I did this and this is a
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    very common mistake that students will
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    say plus or minus one but look what
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    happens when I move this to the other
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    side x^2 = -1 so therefore there is no
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    vertical ASM toote there's no solution
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    you can't square a number and get a
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    negative value so there's no vertical
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    ASM tootes what about a horizontal ASM
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    toote this brings back your knowledge
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    from Advanced functions as well
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    for horizontal I want to know what
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    happens as X approaches Infinity in
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    other words you don't have to say
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    infinity well you should hear but when
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    you're thinking about it you're saying
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    what happens is it X gets really really
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    really really big so if I squared
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    something really big and added one to it
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    this number in the denominator is going
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    to be significantly larger than the
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    number in the
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    numerator even though that will still be
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    a large number I'm dividing by something
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    much larger and so that means that Y is
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    going to approach zero so that means
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    there's a horizontal ASM toote and it is
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    y =
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    0 Okay so we've got our ASM tootes
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    covered what else do we need to know we
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    need to know what the X and Y intercepts
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    are so the x
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    intercept you set y equal to zero so all
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    that means is what how do I make the
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    numerator zero so if I set this equal to
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    zero that means that x equals
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    z is going to be the intercept is going
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    to be zero right and so you normally say
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    the x intercept is zero you don't say x
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    equals z because that generally means
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    you're talking about a line x equals 0
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    which it isn't the x intercept is zero
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    um I should have put a four here so for
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    the Y
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    intercept I set xal to 0 can't spell
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    today if I put zero in for X here 0 / 1
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    is
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    0 so I would say the Y
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    intercept is zero so I've got my x
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    intercept my Y intercept I know there's
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    no vertical ASM tootes and I found the
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    horizontal ASM toote okay so now I want
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    to go ahead and see if I can find any
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    maximum and minimums are critical values
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    for the function now critical value can
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    also be what makes the denominator zero
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    so vertical ASM tootes are also
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    considered critical values but in this
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    case I don't have any okay so I'm going
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    to take the derivative y Prime now we
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    have a quotient so I must apply the
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    quotient rule which is your hod High
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    rule
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    so I do
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    ho D high dtive of the top is 1 minus
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    high D ho the Der of x^2 + 1 is
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    2x all over ho^ 2 so I have x 2 + 1 2ar
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    and I'm going to simplify the
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    numerator so I have X2 + 1 - 2
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    x^2 and it's still all all over x^2 + 1^
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    2 and this gives me in the numerator
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    ax^2 x^2 +
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    1 over x^2 + 1^
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    2 okay so I've got my derivative and I'm
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    going to say what I always say when I'm
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    trying to find critical values so for
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    critical values I want to set y Prime
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    equal to Z and the only thing thing that
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    will possibly make y Prime 0 is if the
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    numerator is zero you can't have zero in
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    the denominator so I'm going to say X2
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    is equal to 1 so I'm just bringing this
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    up here and set it to zero so I brought
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    this to the other side so X is equal to
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    plus or minus one don't forget the plus
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    or minus okay it's a very common
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    mistake okay so I know these are
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    critical values and I want to find the y
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    coordinate very very important that you
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    think about that as you get to this
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    point if I want a point I need the
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    original function a point use the
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    original function okay so when x equal 1
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    Y is = to 1/ 1^ 2 + 1 is a
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    half
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    so the critical point is going to be
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    1 and 12 for the y coordinate now I'm
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    going to do the same thing when x =
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    -1 Y is = to 1 over -1 2ar I have the
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    same thing right I get 1
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    half so I have 1 and a
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    half um when X is - 1 just a minute here
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    I had Nega 1 up here I'm sorry -1 over 2
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    so a half so the other critical
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    point is 1 and
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    -2 okay so I want to check to see if
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    these are
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    actually critical points if there's a
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    maximum or minimum is there a change in
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    the slope so the slope has to change
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    from negative to positive or positive to
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    negative in order for it to be a Max or
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    a Min right so I'm going to write out my
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    number line like this
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    I'm going to call it y Prime label it
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    very
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    important and my critical points are oh
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    I didn't put the negative here so I have
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    one and I have negative 1 and I don't
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    have a vertical ASM toote so I don't
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    have to put this on on here so I'm going
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    to check y Prime so that's this this
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    equation here you're working with this
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    one right don't go back up to this one
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    that gives you the point this is your
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    test your first first derivative test
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    let's call it that right here first
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    derivative
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    test okay I'm going to plug in -2 -22 is
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    4 that's -4 + 1 is negative in the
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    numerator the denominator is squared so
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    it's going to be positive so this is
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    negative and I have negative slope
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    between minus1 and 1 I choose zero
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    always choose zero if you can it's easy
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    to work with so I have 1 over 1 is 1
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    that's positive so I have positive slope
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    here and after 1 if I put in two and
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    squared that would give me 4 -4 don't
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    forget I'm squaring before I apply that
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    negative so that gives me negative over
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    a positive is a negative and that means
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    there is a
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    maximum at xal 1 so this is a maximum
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    come back here and state that
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    and - 1 and2 this is a minimum so you
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    see how it's a minimum because I went
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    down I had negative slope and then I
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    went to positive slope you can actually
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    even sketch in the graph right it's
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    going to go like this and then like
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    this so the other thing is um I have my
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    minimum value at -1 and -2 I'm going to
  • 00:17:26
    do it in green on the graph here
  • 00:17:30
    so-1 and a half that's here that's a
  • 00:17:34
    minimum I have an ASM toote right here
  • 00:17:37
    too don't I remember I said a horizontal
  • 00:17:40
    ASM toote of y equal
  • 00:17:43
    0 and I have 1 and 1/2 that's a maximum
  • 00:17:48
    value and I think you might remember
  • 00:17:51
    from Advanced functions that you can
  • 00:17:54
    cross a horizontal ASM toote for finite
  • 00:17:57
    values of X and and we have an X
  • 00:17:59
    intercept Y intercept was right here so
  • 00:18:03
    as this approaches Infinity the function
  • 00:18:05
    is going to approach
  • 00:18:08
    zero and when we go this way this is
  • 00:18:11
    going to approach
  • 00:18:13
    zero so there's my
  • 00:18:16
    graph okay so you have to be careful
  • 00:18:19
    that you're checking uh using a first
  • 00:18:21
    derivative test again this isn't part of
  • 00:18:24
    4.1 but it's definitely something you're
  • 00:18:26
    going to do many many times so thought
  • 00:18:29
    might as well include that here and that
  • 00:18:31
    will help now if you were asked for the
  • 00:18:33
    increasing and decreasing intervals so
  • 00:18:36
    the function is
  • 00:18:38
    decreasing so let's get a a red pen here
  • 00:18:41
    I'll show you where it's decreasing so
  • 00:18:43
    it's decreasing here this is all
  • 00:18:47
    decreasing this is
  • 00:18:49
    decreasing so the other point here let's
  • 00:18:54
    find another color it's
  • 00:18:56
    increasing on this interval
  • 00:19:00
    it's not really much different color is
  • 00:19:02
    it okay so this is
  • 00:19:05
    increasing and these two other areas
  • 00:19:08
    were
  • 00:19:09
    decreasing
  • 00:19:11
    decreasing decreasing so in terms of
  • 00:19:14
    interval notation you would
  • 00:19:17
    say
  • 00:19:21
    increasing um so we have intervals so
  • 00:19:24
    this is all part of your um your
  • 00:19:27
    algorithm for analyzing a graph so it's
  • 00:19:29
    going to be
  • 00:19:30
    increasing um
  • 00:19:32
    forx is an element of so it's going from
  • 00:19:36
    minus one to one and I use round
  • 00:19:40
    brackets because I'm not including those
  • 00:19:42
    points it's neither increasing nor
  • 00:19:45
    decreasing when the slope is zero so you
  • 00:19:48
    don't include those and
  • 00:19:51
    decreasing on the interval for X is an
  • 00:19:55
    element of negative Infinity to minus
  • 00:19:59
    one so from here to here and from one to
  • 00:20:03
    Infinity so U for Union One to
  • 00:20:08
    Infinity okay so that's a that's a
  • 00:20:10
    pretty lengthy um
  • 00:20:13
    analysis um some of them will be much
  • 00:20:15
    more difficult than that but this is a
  • 00:20:17
    good introduction one for you to get a
  • 00:20:20
    grasp of of what you're going to need to
  • 00:20:23
    to look
  • 00:20:24
    for okay so the next question I want to
  • 00:20:26
    do is a question from the homework
  • 00:20:31
    and it says determine where fime X is
  • 00:20:34
    equal to zero now you might think that's
  • 00:20:37
    pretty easy thing to do but I find that
  • 00:20:39
    a lot of students have trouble with um
  • 00:20:42
    taking the derivative of this product
  • 00:20:45
    that also has an exponent so you're
  • 00:20:48
    using the chain Rule and the product
  • 00:20:50
    rule together so let's try the
  • 00:20:53
    derivative you might want to freeze
  • 00:20:54
    frame right now and try this and then
  • 00:20:57
    come back so I'll go ahead and do it for
  • 00:21:00
    you here so frime X so remember we do
  • 00:21:03
    the first so I'm going to leave that
  • 00:21:05
    alone times the derivative of the second
  • 00:21:08
    so the derivative of this is
  • 00:21:10
    2x first * der of the second plus the
  • 00:21:13
    second x^2 - 9 times the derivative of
  • 00:21:17
    the first so I have to do the exponent
  • 00:21:20
    first so I'm going to write two I leave
  • 00:21:23
    what's in the bracket alone I decrease
  • 00:21:26
    it by one so two goes to one and the
  • 00:21:29
    derivative of the inside which is
  • 00:21:32
    two and so now I'm going to expand this
  • 00:21:36
    um I'm just going to simplify the other
  • 00:21:40
    the second part
  • 00:21:42
    here and then we're going to factor it
  • 00:21:45
    because you're trying to find the zeros
  • 00:21:47
    you can't find the zeros when it's in
  • 00:21:49
    this format so 2 * 2 that gives me 4 *
  • 00:21:55
    x^2 - 9 * 2x -
  • 00:21:59
    one so now I want to look around this
  • 00:22:03
    plus sign for common factors so I'm
  • 00:22:07
    going to pull out a common factor what
  • 00:22:09
    is common to both sides of this equation
  • 00:22:12
    well the first thing would be that I
  • 00:22:15
    have um I have two here right and I have
  • 00:22:20
    four here so I can take two out of each
  • 00:22:23
    of these so I'm going to pull out a two
  • 00:22:26
    and then both sides of the equation have
  • 00:22:28
    a 2X minus one this one has two of them
  • 00:22:32
    but as long as they each have one I can
  • 00:22:34
    pull that out so I'm going to take out a
  • 00:22:36
    2 2x
  • 00:22:38
    -1 make a big square bracket and then
  • 00:22:42
    watch on both sides of this plus sign is
  • 00:22:44
    what you're looking for what did I take
  • 00:22:46
    out so I took out a two I took out one
  • 00:22:49
    of these so I'm left with x * 2x - 1 and
  • 00:22:54
    I'm going to write it out long ways for
  • 00:22:55
    now 2x - 1 on the right hand side of the
  • 00:22:59
    plus sign I've taken out a two so that
  • 00:23:02
    leaves me still with two CU I had four
  • 00:23:05
    here I took out this 2x - 1 it's right
  • 00:23:08
    here and I still have an x^2 -
  • 00:23:13
    9 okay so very easy for me to tell you
  • 00:23:16
    what makes this zero obviously it's
  • 00:23:18
    going to be a half but I need to
  • 00:23:21
    simplify this side so that I can tell
  • 00:23:23
    you what makes what's in this big
  • 00:23:25
    bracket equal to zero so I expand
  • 00:23:29
    2x^2 - x sometimes students think
  • 00:23:32
    they've done way too much work but you
  • 00:23:35
    haven't there's just lots to do here
  • 00:23:38
    okay so now I have 2 2x - 1 and in this
  • 00:23:42
    bracket I have 4x^
  • 00:23:46
    2 -
  • 00:23:48
    x -
  • 00:23:51
    18 and I want to be able to factor this
  • 00:23:56
    so what makes a product of 4 * 18 that's
  • 00:24:00
    72 so product of -72 and a sum of 1 and
  • 00:24:05
    I think you can see right away that it's
  • 00:24:07
    - 9 and 8 so - 9 and 8 - 9 * 8 is - 72
  • 00:24:15
    whoops - 9 and this should be a sum of
  • 00:24:17
    -1 - 9 + 8 is -1 now it's a complex
  • 00:24:23
    trinomial has a four out front here so I
  • 00:24:26
    put both of these over four and I reduce
  • 00:24:29
    so this becomes 2 over
  • 00:24:32
    1 and this one I can't reduce so now I
  • 00:24:37
    just write out my little brackets here
  • 00:24:39
    so 2x - 1 and my factors are 4x -
  • 00:24:44
    9 and x + 2 so if you expanded this you
  • 00:24:50
    should get back to that it's always a
  • 00:24:52
    good thing to do um to check your
  • 00:24:55
    work okay so now I'm going to say for C
  • 00:24:58
    IAL values CU they want to know where is
  • 00:25:00
    frime x equal
  • 00:25:02
    to0 for critical
  • 00:25:05
    values set F Prime x equal to 0 so X is
  • 00:25:10
    going to be equal to what makes this
  • 00:25:13
    bracket zero 1/2 this bracket
  • 00:25:17
    9/4 and this bracket
  • 00:25:20
    -2 now I'm going to do one more step
  • 00:25:23
    here and that is to determine whether
  • 00:25:25
    they are minimums or maximums and and
  • 00:25:28
    what the critical values are now the
  • 00:25:31
    critical values I'll let you figure that
  • 00:25:33
    out on your own you had to plug back in
  • 00:25:35
    these into the original function right
  • 00:25:38
    to find the y-coordinate or the height
  • 00:25:40
    of the function when X is each of these
  • 00:25:43
    values but I can do a first derivative
  • 00:25:46
    test by calling this F Prime X and on
  • 00:25:51
    this number line I'm going to put in
  • 00:25:53
    these critical values so I have minus 2
  • 00:25:57
    I have a half
  • 00:25:59
    and I have
  • 00:26:00
    94 so into the derivative function this
  • 00:26:04
    simplified one here is the one I'm going
  • 00:26:07
    to
  • 00:26:08
    use I'm going to test some values so I'm
  • 00:26:11
    going to try -3 first so some teachers
  • 00:26:15
    make you write out all these intervals
  • 00:26:17
    but you can pretty much do this on your
  • 00:26:19
    head right so if I put in Z put in -3 so
  • 00:26:24
    this would be -6 -1 so that's the two is
  • 00:26:29
    positive and then this little bracket
  • 00:26:31
    here would be negative and if I put in
  • 00:26:34
    -3 it would be negative again because I
  • 00:26:37
    would have minus 21 and if I put a
  • 00:26:39
    negative here this would also be
  • 00:26:42
    negative so I have oops I didn't mean to
  • 00:26:45
    put it like that so I have a negative
  • 00:26:47
    time a negative time a negative time a
  • 00:26:49
    positive and that's all
  • 00:26:52
    negative so it's downhill here negative
  • 00:26:55
    slopes between min-2 and 1 I plug in
  • 00:26:59
    zero very easily here put in x is 0 so I
  • 00:27:02
    have 2 * -1 * -9 so it's negative * a
  • 00:27:07
    negative time a positive and that of
  • 00:27:10
    course is a positive so that means at
  • 00:27:13
    minus 2 I should have a
  • 00:27:16
    minimum a minimum put not a mix but a
  • 00:27:19
    minimum and when I go between a half and
  • 00:27:22
    9/4 I'm going to plug in one nice and
  • 00:27:25
    easy so it's positive * a positive time
  • 00:27:29
    a negative time a positive so I had
  • 00:27:33
    three positives one negative so that
  • 00:27:35
    means this will be negative
  • 00:27:38
    downhill and on the other side of 9/4
  • 00:27:41
    9/4 is two and a bit so let's try three
  • 00:27:45
    so I have positive 6 - 1 that's still
  • 00:27:48
    positive 12 - 9 is positive and 3 + 2 is
  • 00:27:52
    positive all
  • 00:27:54
    positives so my function is going to go
  • 00:27:56
    like this now you can see from the
  • 00:27:59
    original function that it is a quartic
  • 00:28:01
    function 2x^2 * x^2 this is a 4th degree
  • 00:28:06
    right fourth degree
  • 00:28:08
    function fourth
  • 00:28:10
    degree so it means it has it has two
  • 00:28:14
    minimums this is going to be a minimum
  • 00:28:16
    at
  • 00:28:18
    9/4 it's going to be a Max at 1/2 it's
  • 00:28:21
    going to be a minimum at minus
  • 00:28:24
    2 and of course you still need to to
  • 00:28:28
    find you still need to find those Y
  • 00:28:31
    coordinates this isn't a critical point
  • 00:28:33
    it's a critical value critical point
  • 00:28:36
    means X and Y okay so this is getting
  • 00:28:39
    pretty long so I'm going to stop here
  • 00:28:40
    but I do have two more very important
  • 00:28:42
    questions that I'm going to do in a
  • 00:28:45
    second part for you keep studying
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  • curve sketching
  • increasing functions
  • decreasing functions
  • derivative
  • critical values
  • first derivative test
  • maximum
  • minimum
  • asymptotes
  • intercepts