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#1 2007-11-16 05:45:08

tony123
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Registered: 2007-08-03
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minimum value

Find the minimum value of the function

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#2 2007-11-16 08:12:42

mathsyperson
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Re: minimum value

Just by looking at it, the smallest I can see is 501, when x=-1.
No idea how to do it "properly" though.


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#3 2007-11-16 08:31:09

JaneFairfax
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Re: minimum value

If x ≠ 1,

Indeed, as f(1) isn’t the mininum value, you might as well use this formula. Also it appears that f(x) is always positive, so you can probably ignore the modulus sign as well.

I then used differentiation and verified that f(−1) is the minimum value. Well, maybe there’s a less complicated way to do this.

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