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Hey folks, so we're dealing with this function f of x equals two -thirds e to the minus x and we need to determine a few things.
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So first we need to list the critical value.
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So we want to find places where either the derivative doesn't exist or where the derivative is zero.
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So this is negative two -thirds e to the minus x.
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We get chain rule, right? take the derivative of the minus x and then multiply by the derivative of minus x gives you the negative one out front.
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And this, well when you take e and raise it to a power, you never get anything zero, so this is never zero.
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So there are no critical points, and it exists everywhere as well.
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We also notice that f prime of x is strictly less than zero, because e to the negative, that's always positive, but then we multiply by a minus one.
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So this is always negative for all x.
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For any x you plug in, it's negative...