If your asked to find the minimum/maximum coordinate on a positive absolute value graph, will there be a maximum? Or not? Only a minimum?

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Hannah Preston

Mathematics

9 July, 06:56

If your asked to find the minimum/maximum coordinate on a positive absolute value graph, will there be a maximum? Or not? Only a minimum?

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Wendy Hudson · Answer 1

You would either have a local min OR a local max.

If the graph opens upward, you have a local min. If the graph opens downward, you have a local max.

In your case since the absolute value graph is positive, y = |x|, it would have a minimum.