AP Calculus AB › Analysis of curves, including the notions of monotonicity and concavity
Find the intervals on which is increasing.
Find the coordinates of all local extrema for , and specify whether each is a local maximum or local minimum.
Find the intervals of concavity for the function
A function, , is concave up on the intervals
and
with
and
.
Which of the following must be true?
Consider the function:
On what intervals is increasing? Consider all real numbers.
At the point where , is
increasing or decreasing, and is it concave up or down?