Eric Nicholas K's answer to Georgia Jansen's Secondary 4 A Maths Singapore question.

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Eric Nicholas K
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We split the ln of a fraction into the difference of two lns first to simplify differentiation.

To show that the curve has no stationary points, we need to show that dy/dx cannot equate to zero in any situation.
Eric Nicholas K
Eric Nicholas K
5 years ago
There are many other approaches to this, but this is by far the easiest.