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75th Romanian Mathematical Olympiad

Romania algebra

Problem

Let be a continuous function. We define the function by

Show that: a) the function is continuous in and differentiable on ;
Solution
a) The function being continuous on , it follows that the function defined by is differentiable on , with . It follows that the function is differentiable on , as a product of differentiable functions. It remains to show that is continuous at . Since is continuous, , so that, applying l'H\^opital's rule, we have: and it follows that is continuous at .

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