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Consider the quartic function with its second derivative given by . Find the -values where the graph of has an inflection point.
Locate the critical points of , and use the Second Derivative Test to identify whether these points are local maxima, minima, or neither.
Consider the function whose first derivative is given by . Determine the -coordinate at which , if any, has a local maximum, local minimum, or inflection point.
Determine the points where the function has local maxima or minima given .
Mark owns an electric vehicle with a dashboard monitor that displays the driving range based on battery charge. The number of miles you can drive with kWh of battery charge remaining is given as for . Graph the function using a calculator and interpret the driving range function .
A container is leaking oil, and the volume of oil left in the container after days can be modeled by the function , where is measured in liters. Graph the volume function using a graphing utility and calculate the initial volume of oil in the container before it started to leak.
A damped harmonic oscillator's displacement from equilibrium is described by the equation , where is time in seconds. Find the first time at which the oscillator's displacement is at a maximum.
A thermal storage chest with a square base and a box-like shape must hold of material. The bottom panel is made of reinforced insulation, which is three times more expensive per square foot than the side panels, while the top lid is constructed from a lightweight material that costs the same as the sides. Determine the side length s of the square base and the height h of the storage chest that will minimize the total material cost.
An engineer is designing a cylindrical water tank to hold of water. Determine the radius of the tank that will minimize the surface area.