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               Chapter4                                     Applications of
                                                            Derivatives
                                                                  n automobile’s gas mileage is a function of
                                                                  many variables, including road surface, tire
                                                            Atype, velocity, fuel octane rating, road angle,
                                                            and the speed and direction of the wind. If we look
                                                            only at velocity’s effect on gas mileage, the mileage
                                                            of a certain car can be approximated by:
                                                               m(v) 0.00015v30.032v21.8v1.7 
                                                               (where v is velocity)
                                                              At what speed should you drive this car to ob-
                                                            tain the best gas mileage? The ideas in Section 4.1
                                                            will help you find the answer.
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                                                                                                                                                   Section 4.1 Extreme Values of Functions                            187
                                                                                           Chapter 4 Overview
                                                                                           In the past, when virtually all graphing was done by hand—often laboriously—derivatives
                                                                                           were the key tool used to sketch the graph of a function. Now we can graph a function
                                                                                           quickly, and usually correctly, using a grapher. However, confirmation of much of what we
                                                                                           see and conclude true from a grapher view must still come from calculus.
                                                                                               This chapter shows how to draw conclusions from derivatives about the extreme val-
                                                                                           ues of a function and about the general shape of a function’s graph. We will also see
                                                                                           how a tangent line captures the shape of a curve near the point of tangency, how to de-
                                                                                           duce rates of change we cannot measure from rates of change we already know, and
                                                                                           how to find a function when we know only its first derivative and its value at a single
                                                                                           point. The key to recovering functions from derivatives is the Mean Value Theorem, a
                                                                                           theorem whose corollaries provide the gateway to integral calculus, which we begin in
                                                                                           Chapter 5.
                                                                      4.1                    Extreme Values of Functions
                                 What you’ll learn about                                   Absolute (Global) Extreme Values
                                 • Absolute (Global) Extreme Values                        One of the most useful things we can learn from a function’s derivative is whether the
                                 • Local (Relative) Extreme Values                         function assumes any maximum or minimum values on a given interval and where
                                 • Finding Extreme Values                                  these values are located if it does. Once we know how to find a function’s extreme val-
                                                                                           ues, we will be able to answer such questions as “What is the most effective size for a
                                 . . . and why                                             dose of medicine?” and “What is the least expensive way to pipe oil from an offshore
                                 Finding maximum and minimum                               well to a refinery down the coast?” We will see how to answer questions like these in
                                 values of functions, called opti-                         Section 4.4.
                                 mization, is an important issue in
                                 real-world problems.
                                                                                               DEFINITION Absolute Extreme Values
                                                                                               Let f be a function with domain D. Then fc is the
                                                                                               (a) absolute maximum value on D if and only if fx  fc for all x in D.
                                                                                               (b) absolute minimum value on D if and only if fx  fc for all x in D.
                                                                                               Absolute (or global) maximum and minimum values are also called absolute extrema
                                                                                           (plural of the Latin extremum). We often omit the term “absolute” or “global” and just say
                                                                                           maximum and minimum.
                                                     y                                         Example 1 shows that extreme values can occur at interior points or endpoints of 
                                                                                           intervals.
                                                                   y     sin x
                                                   1                 
                                   y     cos x
                                     
                                                                                           EXAMPLE 1 Exploring Extreme Values
                                                                               x             On p2, p2, fx  cos x takes on a maximum value of 1 (once) and a minimum
                                                  0          
                                        – ––                  ––                             value of 0 (twice). The function  gx  sin x takes on a maximum value of 1 and a
                                          2                   2
                                                                                             minimum value of 1 (Figure 4.1).                                                                Now try Exercise 1.
                                                  –1
                                                                                               Functions with the same defining rule can have different extrema, depending on the
                               Figure 4.1 (Example 1)                                      domain.
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                             188            Chapter 4            Applications of Derivatives
                                                 y                                              EXAMPLE 2 Exploring Absolute Extrema
                                                                                                   The absolute extrema of the following functions on their domains can be seen in Figure 4.2.
                                          y     x2
                                            
                                                –
                                         D   ( , )
                                                                                                                 Function Rule                     Domain D                                      Absolute Extrema on D
                                                                                                     (a)                 y x2                         ,                                 No absolute maximum. 
                                                                                                                                                                                          Absolute minimum of 0 at x  0.
                                                                2        x
                                                                                                     (b)                 y x2                          0, 2                              Absolute maximum of 4 at x  2. 
                                       (a) abs min only                                                                                                                                     Absolute minimum of 0 at x  0.
                                                 y                                                   (c)                 y x2                          0, 2                              Absolute maximum of 4 at x  2. 
                                                                                                                                                                                            No absolute minimum.
                                                                                                     (d)                 y x2                          0, 2                              No absolute extrema.
                                           y     x2
                                              
                                          D   [0, 2]
                                                                                                                                                                                                             Now try Exercise 3.
                                                                                                     Example 2 shows that a function may fail to have a maximum or minimum value. This
                                                                         x                       cannot happen with a continuous function on a finite closed interval.
                                                                2
                                    (b) abs max and min
                                                 y                                                   THEOREM 1 The Extreme Value Theorem
                                                                                                     If f is continuous on a closed interval a, b, then f has both a maximum value and a
                                            y    x2
                                                                                                    minimum value on the interval. (Figure 4.3)
                                           D   (0, 2]
                                              
                                                                         x                                               (x , M)
                                                                2                                                          2
                                       (c) abs max only                                                                                                                                                  y    f(x)
                                                                                                                               M          y    f(x)                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                            M
                                                y                                                                                                   x
                                                                                                                                                      1                    x                                               m x
                                                                                                                  a          x2                                    b                      a                              b
                                                                                                                                                      m                                   Maximum and minimum
                                           y     x2
                                                                                                                                                                                           at endpoints
                                          D   (0, 2)
                                                                                                                                               (x , m)
                                                                                                                                                   1
                                                                                                                            Maximum and minimum
                                                                                                                            at interior points
                                                                2        x
                                                                                                                                               y    f(x)
                                                                                                                                                 
                                   (d) no abs max or min                                                                                                                                                 y     f(x)
                                                                                                                                       M                                                                   
                             Figure 4.2 (Example 2)                                                                                                                                                                         M
                                                                                                                        m                                                                              m
                                                                                                                      a             x            b          x                         a                                   b        x
                                                                                                                                      2                                                              x
                                                                                                                                                                                                      1
                                                                                                                    Maximum at interior point,                                          Minimum at interior point,
                                                                                                                    minimum at endpoint                                                 maximum at endpoint
                                                                                                           Figure 4.3 Some possibilities for a continuous function’s maximum (M) and
                                                                                                           minimum (m) on a closed interval [a, b].
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                                                                                                                                                   Section 4.1 Extreme Values of Functions                            189
                                                                                                                                                                    Absolute maximum.
                                                                                                                                                                    No greater value of f anywhere.
                                                                                                                                    Local maximum.                  Also a local maximum.
                                                                                                                                   No greater value of
                                                                                                                                               f nearby.                                        Local minimum.
                                                                                                                                                                  y     f(x)
                                                                                                                                                                                               No smaller
                                                                                                                                                                                                value of f nearby.
                                                                                                         Absolute minimum.
                                                                                                              No smaller value                                     Local minimum.
                                                                                                         of f anywhere. Also a                                     No smaller value of
                                                                                                               local minimum.                                      f nearby.
                                                                                                                                  a             c                e                  d         b                    x
                                                                                                 Figure 4.4 Classifying extreme values. 
                                                                                           Local (Relative) Extreme Values
                                                                                           Figure 4.4 shows a graph with five points where a function has extreme values on its domain
                                                                                           a, b. The function’s absolute minimum occurs at a even though at e the function’s value is
                                                                                           smaller than at any other point nearby. The curve rises to the left and falls to the right around
                                                                                           c, making fc a maximum locally. The function attains its absolute maximum at d.
                                                                                               DEFINITION Local Extreme Values
                                                                                               Let c be an interior point of the domain of the function f. Then fc is a
                                                                                               (a) local maximum value at c if and only if  fx  fc for all x in some open 
                                                                                               interval containing c.
                                                                                               (b) local minimum value at c if and only if  fx  fc for all x in some open 
                                                                                               interval containing c.
                                                                                               A function f has a local maximum or local minimum at an endpoint c if the appro-
                                                                                               priate inequality holds for all x in some half-open domain interval containing c.
                                                                                           Local extrema are also called relative extrema.
                                                                                               An absolute extremum is also a local extremum, because being an extreme value
                                                                                           overall makes it an extreme value in its immediate neighborhood. Hence, a list of local ex-
                                                                                           trema will automatically include absolute extrema if there are any.
                                                                                           Finding Extreme Values
                                                                                           The interior domain points where the function in Figure 4.4 has local extreme values are
                                                                                           points where either f	is zero or f	does not exist. This is generally the case, as we see from
                                                                                           the following theorem.
                                                                                               THEOREM 2 Local Extreme Values
                                                                                               If a function f has a local maximum value or a local minimum value at an interior
                                                                                               point c of its domain, and if f	exists at c, then
                                                                                                                                                    f 	c  0.
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