Solution

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Rolle theorem: if is continuous on , differentiable on , and , then for some . Indeed, the extreme value theorem gives a maximum and minimum. If both occur only at the endpoints then is constant; otherwise an interior extremum satisfies by comparing the two-sided difference quotients.
Mean value theorem: if is continuous on and differentiable on , then some satisfies
Apply Rolle's theorem to
which has .

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