Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH102/December 2016/Question A 01
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Observe that and . Also, consider the concavity of the function. |
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Solution |
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From the graph, we can easily see that and . Furthermore, the function is concave up on and concave down on . Using this information, (i) can't be the answer because of . On the other hand, (iv) is also not the answer because . ( in general) Finally, we exclude (ii), which follows from for any .
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