Solution

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The chord through the endpoints is the straight line . At , the tangent line is
These 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.
Figure 1.
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.

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