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Increasing and Decreasing Functions

This document is a Grade 12 worksheet focused on increasing and decreasing functions, containing multiple-choice questions and short/long answer type questions. It includes various functions and asks students to determine the intervals in which these functions are increasing or decreasing. The worksheet aims to assess students' understanding of the behavior of functions through analysis of their derivatives.

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Increasing and Decreasing Functions

This document is a Grade 12 worksheet focused on increasing and decreasing functions, containing multiple-choice questions and short/long answer type questions. It includes various functions and asks students to determine the intervals in which these functions are increasing or decreasing. The worksheet aims to assess students' understanding of the behavior of functions through analysis of their derivatives.

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GRADE 12-WORKSHEET

Increasing and Decreasing functions

Objective questions
1. The interval in which the function 𝑓 given by 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 𝑒 −𝑥 is strictly
increasing is
(a) (−∞, ∞) (b) (−∞, 0) (c) (2, ∞) d) (0,2)
2. The interval in which the function 𝑓 given by 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 − 4𝑥 + 6 is strictly
increasing is
(a) (−∞, 2) ∪ (2, ∞) (b) (2, ∞) (c) (−∞, 2) d) (−∞, 2] ∪ (2, ∞)
3. The function 𝑓 given by 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 3 − 15𝑥 2 + 36𝑥 + 6 is increasing in the
interval
(a) (−∞, 2) ∪ (3, ∞) (b) (−∞, 2) (c) (−∞, 2] ∪ [3, ∞) d) (3, ∞)
4. The interval in which the functions 𝑓 given by 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 − 6𝑥 2 + 6 is
increasing is
(a) (−∞, −4) ∪ (0, ∞) (b) (−∞, 4) (c) (−4,0) d) (−∞, 0) ∪ (4, ∞)
5. The real function 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 3 − 3𝑥 2 − 36𝑥 + 7 is
(a) strictly increasing in (−∞, −2) and strictly decreasing in (−2, ∞)
(b) strictly increasing in (−2,3)
(c) strictly increasing in (−∞, 3) and strictly decreasing in (3, ∞)
(d) strictly decreasing in (−∞, −2) ∪ (3, ∞)
6. The interval in which the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 3 + 9𝑥 2 + 12𝑥 − 1 is decreasing is
a) (−1, ∞) (b) (−2, −1) (c) (−∞, −2) (d) [−1,1]
7. The function (𝑥) = 𝑥 3 − 3𝑥 2 + 12𝑥 − 18 is
(a) strictly decreasing on R (b) strictly increasing on R
(c) neither strictly increasing nor strictly decreasing on R
(d) strictly decreasing on (−∞, 0)
8. The function 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 + 3𝑥 is increasing in the interval
(a) −∞, 0) (b) (0, ∞) (c) R (d) (0,1)

Short/Long answer type Questions

9. Show that the function given by 𝑓 (𝑥) = 𝑥 3 − 3𝑥 2 + 3𝑥 is increasing on R.


10. Determine whether the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 − 6𝑥 + 3 is increasing or decreasing
in [4,6].
11. Show that the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 − [𝑥]increasing in (0,1).
12. Find the value of a for which the function f given by 𝑓 (𝑥) = 𝑎𝑥 3 − 9𝑎𝑥 2 + 9 𝑥 +
3 is increasing on R.
𝑥
13. Find the sub-intervals in which 𝑓(𝑥) = log(2 + 𝑥) − 2+𝑥 , 𝑥 > −2 is increasing or
decreasing.
14. Find the intervals in which the function given by f(x) = 2 log(𝑥 − 3) − 𝑥 2 + 4𝑥 −
2, is strictly increasing or strictly decreasing.
15. Show that the function 𝑓 defined by 𝑓(𝑥) = (𝑥 − 1)𝑒 𝑥 + 1 is an increasing
function for all 𝑥 > 0.
𝑥 3
16. Show that the function 𝑓(𝑥) = + decreases in the intervals (−3,0) ∪ (3,0).
3 𝑥
17. Determine whether the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 − 6𝑥 + 3 is increasing or decreasing
in [4,6].
3
18. Find the intervals in which 𝑓(𝑥) = 2 𝑥 4 − 4𝑥 3 − 45𝑥 2 + 51 is
(a) strictly increasing (b) strictly decreasing

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