CPM Homework Help : APCALC Problem 4-178

Using your graphing calculator, determine all relative maxima and minima points of inflection, and discontinuities of the curve $y = \frac { \operatorname { sin } ( x ) } { x }$ between $–2π ≤ x ≤ 2π$ .

Hint:

Careful!
Recall that a maximum (and a minimum) is defined as a $y$ -value, and that $y$ -value must exist.
What does that mean about the maximum of

$y=\frac{\text{sin}x}{x}?$

Hint:

To find the minimum values and the point of inflection, you will need to examine $f ^\prime\left(x\right)$ and $f^{\prime \prime}\left(x\right),$ and then find their respective zeros. Remember that we are only considering the the domain $−2π ≤ x ≤ 2π.$

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