okay time to spout some premium quality bs yet again. this week we learned about critical numbers and what they are used for. they are used to find the maximum and minimum of a graph. and for he misled purpose of writing toward a word count i will explain how. in order to find your critical numbers, you must take the derivative of a function and set it equal to zero. critical numbers are most often referred to using the expression x = c. critical numbers also represent the horizontal tangents of an equation.
for example: 2x^2 - 4x
4x - 4 = 0
4x = 4
x = 1
there is a horizontal tangent at one... congratulations
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