I've been going at this problem for an hour now trying to equal them to one another, differentiating either side, it just results in a whole load of nothing.
#Piecewise differentiability question
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The answers are a=12 and b=-3, but I'm unsure how they got there.
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answers are a=-12, and b=-4 i mean*
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Ok im still thinking about it but
limit as x approaches 0 for the top function will be 0, no matter what value you put in for a
so the bottom function must also equal 0 when x is 0, so b must be -4
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yeah i got the b part eventually
however, finding a is still a problem for me
since b is equal to -4, I figured i'd find what x was equal too since both functions have to equal to one another and got x=0, and x=4
not sure what else to do with that information
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.solved