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Exercise 9.43
Find the local maxima and minima of and show that each of the intervals contains exactly one of the values .
Answers
Proof. Write , and for ,
so . As in section 12, since , and ,
So are the three roots of .
iff . is decreasing on , and increasing on , and on .
Since , , therefore
and
□Since and , the intermediate value theorem shows that has a unique root in each of the intervals .
Moreover
therefore has a unique root in each of the intervals .