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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 2 5 Solution by
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Factorization gives , so the zeros are and , with a double root at two. The derivatives are and . ThusThe second derivative changes sign at one, confirming the inflection point. The curve rises from , crosses at , reaches its local maximum, falls to touch the axis at two, then rises to . Neither local extremum is a global extremum on the whole real line.
Zeros, two stationary points and an inflection point of the cubic
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