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Extrema of a function

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Find the relative extrema for y = (x^2+5x+3)/(x-1).

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To find the relative extremum of a function, we set the first derivative equal to zero and solve for the values of the unknown independent variable. This problem illustrates this technique by means of a simple equation and a graph.

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