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    To find the inflection point of a function f: 1) Set the second derivative of f equal to 0 and solve for the root. 2) This will return the inflection point(s) as a solution. 3) For functions with real inflection points, discard any complex solutions and use the remaining real value(s). 4) You can verify the inflection point symbolically by entering it into the 'pretty' command.

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    To find the inflection point of a function f: 1) Set the second derivative of f equal to 0 and solve for the root. 2) This will return the inflection point(s) as a solution. 3) For functions with real inflection points, discard any complex solutions and use the remaining real value(s). 4) You can verify the inflection point symbolically by entering it into the 'pretty' command.

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    To find the inflection point of a function f: 1) Set the second derivative of f equal to 0 and solve for the root. 2) This will return the inflection point(s) as a solution. 3) For functions with real inflection points, discard any complex solutions and use the remaining real value(s). 4) You can verify the inflection point symbolically by entering it into the 'pretty' command.

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    Find Inflection Point

    To find the inflection point of f, set the second derivative equal to 0 and solve.
    f2 = diff(f1);
    inflec_pt = solve(f2,'MaxDegree',3);
    double(inflec_pt)
    This returns
    ans =
    -5.2635 + 0.0000i
    -1.3682 - 0.8511i
    -1.3682 + 0.8511i
    In this example, only the first entry is a real number, so this is the only inflection point. (Note that in other
    examples, the real solutions might not be the first entries of the answer.) Since you are only interested in
    the real solutions, you can discard the last two entries, which are complex numbers.
    inflec_pt = inflec_pt(1);
    To see the symbolic expression for the inflection point, enter
    pretty(simplify(inflec_pt))
    2/3 1/3
    1/3 2/3 1/3
    1/3
    2 13 (13 - 3 sqrt(13))
    2 13 (3 sqrt(13) + 13)
    - ------------------------------- - ------------------------------- - 6
    6
    3

    Plot the inflection point. The extra argument, [-9 6], in ezplot extends the range of x values in the plot so
    that you see the inflection point more clearly, as shown in the following figure.
    ezplot(f, [-9 6])
    hold on
    plot(double(inflec_pt), double(subs(f,inflec_pt)),'ro')
    title('Inflection Point of f')
    text(-7,2,'Inflection point')
    hold off

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