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How do the signs of f′ and f″ alone reveal where 3x − x³ climbs, falls, and turns from valley to hilltop?
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Sign rules for and
Write the four rules: increasing, decreasing, concave up, concave down, illustrate concave up with a slope going from to , and record that precalculus common sense comes first.
Critical point and critical value
Define a critical point by and its critical value , and record two distinctions: the graph need not turn at a critical point, and corners do not count.
Worked example from alone
Factor , find its sign on , and , compute and , and sketch the down-up-down shape with its valley and hilltop.