How do you determine where the given function #f(x) = (x+3)^(2/3) - 6# is concave up and where it is concave down?
1 Answer
May 1, 2015
In order to investigate concavity, we'll look at the sign of the second derivative.
Notice that
The only place where
But clearly the numerator is always negative, and the denominator, being a positive times a 4th power, is always positive.
So
The graph is concave down on
Because of the cusp at
Here's the graph of
graph{(x+3)^(2/3) - 6 [-18.74, 13.3, -15.11, 0.92]}