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Unit 5: Applying derivatives to analyze functions

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The first and the second derivative of a function give us all sorts of useful information about that function's behavior. The first derivative tells us where a function increases or decreases or has a maximum or minimum value; the second derivative tells us where a function is concave up or down and where it has inflection points.
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