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Horizontal Tangent

Example Let Find those points on the graph at which the tangent line is a horizontal. The key is to find those x where Since which means f has horizontal tangent at x=0, and But we need to find the corresponding values for y; (0,f(0)), and This implies that f has horizontal tangent at the following points: (0,0), and


Wei-Chi Yang
Sat Oct 19 00:19:09 EDT 1996