CBSE Class 12 Maths – Application of Derivatives

The primary topics are rate of change of quantities, finding intervals of increasing and decreasing functions, and solving maxima and minima optimization problems.

Find critical points where f'(x) = 0. Evaluate f''(x) at those points: a negative second derivative indicates a local maximum, while a positive second derivative indicates a local minimum.

A differentiable function f is strictly increasing on an open interval if f'(x) > 0 for every x in that interval.

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