Increasing and decreasing functions and points of inflection
What Increasing and decreasing functions and points of inflection means in Mathematics A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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A function is increasing where dy/dx > 0 and decreasing where dy/dx < 0; a point of inflection is where the curve changes concavity.
Topics that use Increasing and decreasing functions and points of inflection
- Differentiation (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Chain rule
- Composite function
- connected rates of change
- Derivative
- differentiation from first principles
- Implicit differentiation
- Modelling real situations with derivatives
- Parametric differentiation
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