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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2008 Paper 1 7 ii Solution by
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The domain is , and from below as . Its derivative is , so it decreases up to and then increases, with its unique global minimum at . It crosses the horizontal axis at and tends to as . Its second derivative is , so it is strictly convex. The right panel of the preceding figure shows these features; zero is an excluded endpoint with a finite limiting value, rather than a vertical asymptote.
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