View Single Post
  #10  
Old December 3rd, 2008, 03:04 PM
fattydq fattydq is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 242
Country:
Thanks: 33
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
fattydq is on a distinguished road
Default

Oh jeez. I kept plugging in only POSITIVE sqrt 3/3, rather than negative. My apologies. This leads me to another similar question, however. What would you do if you have a similar function with e involved, and are asked to find the same thing (absolute min/max values) but the exponent's derivative no longer contains an x.

F(x) = e^-x - e^-2x

When you pull the exponents out in front there are no longer x's attached so how would you set it equal to 0 if e to any power can never equal 0.
Reply With Quote