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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2024 Paper 2 3 b Solution by
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The chord through the endpoints is the straight line . At , the tangent line isThese two straight lines have the same slope, as required by the mean value theorem. Since , the natural logarithm is a concave function: its graph lies above the chord and below this tangent line.
The mean value theorem for the logarithm on the interval from one to two
. The chord and the tangent line at are parallel. The marked point lies on the graph of the natural logarithm. Details. New to topics? Read the docs here!
