Thomas' Calculus 13th Edition

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Chapter 4: Applications of Derivatives - Additional and Advanced Exercises - Page 246: 7

Answer

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Work Step by Step

Step 1. Identify the given conditions: $f’(x)\leq0$ on $[a,c)$ and $f’(x)\geq0$ on $(c,b]$. Step 2. Using the sign test for $f’(x)$ across the critical point $c$, we have $..(-)..(c)..(+)..$ and we can see that the curve is concave up with a local minimum at $x=c$, which means that $f(x)\geq c$ on the interval.
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