Eric Nicholas K's answer to Tricia Chew's Secondary 3 A Maths Singapore question.

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Eric Nicholas K
Eric Nicholas K's answer
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As requested.

Plotting the graph on graph paper should get you a curve which looks like this.

The only other method in your secondary maths syllabus, which can solve this other question (by a non-graphical method), is by differentiation, which you will only learn in Sec 4 A Maths. As such, I will not do them here.