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5.6 Application: finding extremal values

Course week(s) Week 5
Course subject(s) 5. Differentiation

For optimization it is important to be able to find the minima and maxima of a function. In this video you will learn how to do this!

Let’s find the global extreme values of f(x)=x³−3x on the interval [−3,3].

Can you catch the error?

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