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Does the function $f (x) = x^{2} + 2 x + 15$ $f(x)=x^2 + 2x +15$ have a maximum or minimum?

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Aug 18, 2017

It has a minimum

Explanation:

this parabola opens upward, so it has a vertex that is a minimum point and it has no maximum.

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