Thursday, 20 April 2017

calculus - relation between the number of real roots of the derivative and the original polynomial




If the derivative of polynomial has n real roots then can we conclude that the original polynomial has to have n+1 real roots?


Answer



No. $f(x)=x^2+1$ provides a counterexample.


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