SOLUTION: Find the following, rounded to two decimal places. (Enter your answers using interval notation.) Y=X4^(x) (a) the intervals on which the function is increasing or decreasing?

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Question 1040468: Find the following, rounded to two decimal places. (Enter your answers using interval notation.)
Y=X4^(x)
(a) the intervals on which the function is increasing or decreasing?
(b) the range of the function?

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Find the derivative,


So the sign of the derivative is controlled by,

So find when,



The function is decreasing when
The function is increasing when
and it has a minimum when
When

So the range is
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