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JEE Advanced2023Paper 2MATH-III
Q.

For , let . Then the minimum value of the function defined by

is

Solution

By the Leibniz rule,

The product for every real (it is the product of two quantities with the same sign), so the denominator is positive and the exponential factor is positive. Therefore the sign of matches the sign of .

Now , and at and more generally is strictly increasing through (both terms have the sign of ). Hence for and for .

Therefore attains its minimum at , and

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