Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH100/December 2016/Question 14 (b)
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Question 14 (b) |
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Let be a function so that
Show that has at least one zero in the open interval . |
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Hint 1 |
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Using the mean value theorem, show that the second derivative of must be negative somewhere between and . Also, the second derivative must be positive somewhere between and . |
Hint 2 |
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Apply the intermediate value theorem to the second derivative of and find a zero of . |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. In the similar way in part (a), we observe that This implies that the derivative must be positive somewhere between and and then negative somewhere between and . This is because by the mean value theorem, we have and such that
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Thus the second derivative must be negative somewhere between and ; we can find such that
Similarly, the derivative must be negative somewhere between and and then positive between and . Hence the second derivative must be positive somewhere between and . Thus, by the intermediate value theorem, the second derivative has a zero (and changes sign at that zero) somewhere between and . |