Calculus 8th Edition

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Chapter 3 - Applications of Differentiation - 3.3 How Derivatives Affect the Shape of a Graph - 3.3 Exercises - Page 231: 73

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Work Step by Step

Rewrite the given function: $$\begin{align*} g(x)=\begin{cases} -x^2,x<0\\ x^2,x\geq 0 \end{cases} \end{align*}$$ The first derivative $g'(x)$ is: $$\begin{align*} g'(x)=\begin{cases} -2x,x<0\\ 2x,x>0 \end{cases} \end{align*}$$ The second derivative $g''(x)$ is: $$\begin{align*} g''(x)=\begin{cases} -2,x<0\\ 2,x\geq 0 \end{cases} \end{align*}$$ Since $g''(x)<0$ for $x<0$ and $g''(x)>0$ for $x\gt0$, it follows that $(0,0)$ is an inflection point even though $g''(0)$ does not exist.
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