Let f(x)=−12(x+2)2+5 . What is the average rate of change for the quadratic function from x=−3 to x = 1?
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Except there are values you want to substitute into the expression, this is what your answer looks like:
Answer:
(-5, 0) ∪ (5, ∞)
Step-by-step explanation:
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When you want to find where a function is increasing or decreasing, you want to look at the sign of the derivative. Here, the derivative is ...
f'(x) = 4x^3 -100x = 4x(x^2 -25) = 4x(x +5)(x -5)
This has zeros at x=-5, x=0, and x=5. The sign of the derivative will be positive when 0 or 2 factors have negative signs. The signs change at the zeros. So, the intervals of f' having a positive sign are (-5, 0) and (5, ∞).
