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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 18 e Solution by
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The upper branch leaves the origin horizontally and curves upward, growing like . The lower branch shares the horizontal tangent, rises to its small maximum at , then crosses the axis at and falls toward . Its concavity changes at , before the maximum. A separate zoom makes those nearby lower-branch features visible.
Real branches of the singular curve, with the lower branch enlarged to mark its extrema, inflection, and zeros
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