RD Sharma - Mathematics (Volume 1)

Book: RD Sharma - Mathematics (Volume 1)

Chapter: 17. Increasing and Decreasing Functions

Subject: Maths - Class 12th

Q. No. 23 of Exercise 17.2

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23

Show that f(x) = sin x – cos x is an increasing function on (–π /4, π /4)?

we have,

f(x) = sin x – cos x


f'(x) = cos x + sin x





Now,








f'(x)>0


Hence, f(x) is an increasing function on (–π /4, π /4)


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Find the interval in which is increasing or decreasing ?