Whitman College: David Guichard's "Calculus, Chapter 6: Applications of the Derivative, Section 6.1: Optimization"

Read Section 6.1 (pages 115-124). An important application of the derivative is to find where a function takes its global maximum and its global minimum. The Extreme Value Theorem indicates how to approach this problem. Pay particular attention to the summary at the end of the section.

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