Question: Let f : R R be the function defined by f ( x ) = a x 3 + b x 2 + c x
Let : be the function defined by
a Under what conditions on the coefficients will have one local minimum and one local maximum.
b Under what conditions on the coefficients will have a single local extremum.
c Under what conditions on the coefficients will have no local extrema ie no local minima or maxima
For this question you can use that a polynomial has two distinct roots if and only if and has exactly one root if and only if
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