Finding Regions of Increasing and Decreasing Value - Math

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Define .

Give the interval(s) on which is increasing.

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is increasing on those intervals at which .

We need to find the values of for which . To that end, we first solve the equation:

These are the boundary points, so the intervals we need to check are:

, , and

We check each interval by substituting an arbitrary value from each for .

Choose

increases on this interval.

Choose

decreases on this interval.

Choose

increases on this interval.

The answer is that increases on

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