Show that the general quartic (fourth-degree) polynomial f(x) = x 4 + ax 3 + bx 2

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Show that the general quartic (fourth-degree) polynomial f(x) = x4 + ax3 + bx2 + cx + d has either zero or two inflection points, and that the latter case occurs provided that b < 3a2/8.

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Calculus Early Transcendentals

ISBN: 978-0321947345

2nd edition

Authors: William L. Briggs, Lyle Cochran, Bernard Gillett

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