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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2009 Paper 1 8 a Solution by
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The graph is nonnegative, tends to as and as , and vanishes only at . Its derivative is , negative before one and positive after one, so is the unique global minimum. The second derivative is : the graph is convex for and concave for , with an inflection point at . These features determine the sketch in the left panel.
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