RD Sharma - Mathematics (Volume 1)

Book: RD Sharma - Mathematics (Volume 1)

Chapter: 17. Increasing and Decreasing Functions

Subject: Maths - Class 12th

Q. No. 26 of Exercise 17.2

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26

Find the interval in which is increasing or decreasing ?

we have





Critical points




⇒x = 0, –1


Clearly,f'(x) > 0 if x>0


And f'(x) < 0 if –1 < x < 0 or x < –1


Hence, f(x) increases in (0,), decreases in (–, –1) U (–1, 0)


Chapter Exercises

Exercise 17.1
Exercise 17.2
MCQ

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