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Help please?Given the criteria for a possible function,Classify the critical points as relative maximums, relative minimums or neither.

Help please?Given the criteria for a possible function,Classify the critical points-example-1

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Given:

f'(2) = 0 and f'(5) = 0

Thus, we have:

f'(x) = 0 at x = 2 and x = 5

Let's classify the critical points as relative maximums, relative minimums or neither.

Now, we have the following:

• When x = 2, the function f'(x) does not change its sign. Hence, x = 2 is neither a relative maximum nor relative minimum point.

• When x = 5, the sign f'(x) changes sign from positive to negative. Since the sign changes from positive to negative, hence x = 5 is a relative maximum point.

ANSWER:

• Relative maximum: x = 5

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• Neither relative maximum nor minimum: x = 2

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