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Thylacine

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Having problems with this one.
Find the point of inflexion on the curve y = x loge x-x2

Can anyone help?
 

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y=xlnx-x^2
y'=lnx+1-2x
y''=1/x-2 =0 at pt of inf, so x=1/2

and sub into y , what you get should be the same as Drongoski's answer

of course you should verify the change of concavity
 

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Thankyou both for your help.
I realise now I was treating the x - x^2 as though it was in brackets.
ie loge(x-x^2).
This caused major problems when trying to find the second derivative.
Thanks again.
 

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