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Tutorial 1: Monotonic Functions and the First Derivative Test

Example 2: Find the local extrema of:

and sketch its graph.

Solution: First we find the critical numbers of f:

The derivative

when 5-7x=0, that is,

. Also

does not exist when x=1. So the critical numbers are

and 1.