Thomas' Calculus 13th Edition

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Chapter 4: Applications of Derivatives - Section 4.4 - Concavity and Curve Sketching - Exercises 4.4 - Page 215: 104

Answer

The graph is either concave down or concave up everywhere. There are no inflections, cusps, or corners.

Work Step by Step

If $ f''(x) \gt 0 $ on the whole domain, then $f$ is concave up, and never changes concavity. This means: no inflections, no cusps, no corners. The same goes if $ f''(x) \lt 0 $ on the whole domain, except that it is concave down everywhere.
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