Find critical points and test for relative extrema.

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First we find the critical points of the function f(x,y):
f1(x,y) is the first derivative with respect to x and f2(x,y) is the first derivative with respect to y. So:

f1(x,y) := 3*x^2-12*x+12
f2(x,y) := 3*y^2+18*y+27

We have to solve the system of f1=0 and f2=0 and find all the common (x,y) roots of both. As you can see f1 has no y element and f2 has no x component, so you can solve them separately.

f1=0 -> x=2, x=2 (repeated)
f2=0 -> y=-3, y=-3 (repeated)
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