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1. What is a critical number of a function f ? What is the connection between...

1. What is a critical number of a function f ? What is the connection between critical numbers and relative extreme values?

2. What does the sign of the derivative, f ', tell us about the function? What does the sign of the 2nd derivative, f ", tell us about the function?

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