JEE Main 2024MathematicsDifferentiationSuccessive DifferentiationhardNumerical

JEE Main 2024Differentiation Question with Solution

From: JEE Main 2024 (Online) 4th April Evening Shift

Question

Let be a thrice differentiable function such that and . Then, the minimum number of zeros of is __________.

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Correct answer
3

Step-by-step explanation

and then

has atleast 4 real roots.

Then has atleast 3 real roots and has atleast 2 real roots.

Now we know that

Here has atleast 6 roots.

Then its differentiation has atleast 5 distinct roots.

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