Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Calculus of a Single Variable, Chapter 3, 3.3, Section 3.3, Problem 29

You need to find the open intervals on which the function is increasing or decreasing, hence, you need to find where the derivative is positive or negative, so, you need to evaluate the first derivative of the function, such that:
f'(x) = ((x+2)^(2/3))' => f'(x) = 2/(3*root(3)(x+2))
You need to solve for x the equation f'(x) = 0:
2/3*root(3)(x+2)) = 0
You need to notice that there are no values for x that verify the equation 2/3*root(3)(x+2)) = 0
You need to notice that f'(x)<0 on intervals (-oo,-2) and f'(x)>0 on (-2,+oo).
Hence, the function increases for x in (-2,+oo) and the function decreases for x in (-oo,-2).

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