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Calculus 1: Graphing and Critical Points

Find the critical points of the function
##f(x) = \frac{5}{{(x^2 - 4x)}^2}##
For the following function draw a rough sketch of the graph for the 3 cases
##f(x) = \frac{(x - a)}{(x - b)(x - c)}##
Case 1: a < b, c
Case 2: b < a < c
Case 3: b, c < a
Find and classify the critical points of the following function
##f(x) = x^3 - 3x^2 - 9x + 2##
Find the critical points of the following function
##f(x) = 6x^5 + 33x^4 - 30x^3 + 100##
Find the critical numbers for the following function
##f(x) = \ln{(x^{2})} + 1.5x##
Find the critical numbers of the function
##f(x) = x^2 - 4x##
Find the critical numbers for the following function ##f(x) = x^{\frac{2}{3}}##
Draw a rough graph of the following function using the critical numbers
##f(x) = \frac{2}{3}x^3 + \frac{9}{2}x^2 - 5x - 17##
Find the inflection points for the following function and determine intervals of concave up and concave down on the graph
##f(x) = \ln{(1 - \ln{(x)})}##
Find the inflection points and intervals of concavity for the following function
##y = \frac{x^2 + 1}{x^2}##
Use the 2nd Derivative Test to find the inflection points and intervals of concavity for the following function
##f(x) = x^{3}(x - 4)##
Find all points of inflection and discuss the concavity over different intervals for the following function
##f(x) = x^3 - 6x^2 + 12x##
Use the second derivative test to find all relative extrema of the following function
##f(x) = \frac{1}{3}x^3 + 2x^2 + 3x##
Find the relative extrema for the following function on the given interval
##f(x) = \frac{2x}{x^2 + 1}## , ##[-2, 2]##
Find the absolute extrema of the following function on the given interval
##h(x) = \frac{x}{x - 2}## , ##[3, 5]##
Find all relative maximum and minimum values for the following function
##f(x) = x^4 - 32x^2 + 256##