Cracking The Ap Calculus ab Exam 2018

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First, note that the derivative is zero at the point (0, 1) because the tangent line is horizontal there. Next,
the derivative is negative for all x < 0 because the tangent lines to the curve have negative slopes
everywhere on the interval (−∞, 0). Finally, the derivative is positive for all x > 0 because the tangent
lines to the curve have positive slopes everywhere on the interval (0, ∞). Now we can make a graph of
the derivative. It will go through the origin (because the derivative is 0 at x = 0), it will be negative on the
interval (−∞, 0) and it will be positive on the interval (0, ∞). The graph looks something like the
following:

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