Sketch curves

kjbohn

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Sketch f(x)=sin(x)/x

So far I found that the domain cannot equal 0. Thats its an even function because f(-x)=sin(-x)/(-x)=-sinx/-x, which gives you sin(x)/x. which is the same function. I have trouble finding out the vertical assymtotes but i think that there are none, and for horizontal assymtotes i got h.a=1 because of the ratio between the two highest values being 1. Then I found the first derivative which is f'(x)=(xcos(x)-sin(x))/x^2, and plugged in zero to get the maximum or minimum and got zero as the anwser. Im not sure where to go from here I know i need to find the second derivative, but I'm not completely sure if Im correct so far in my work. Help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
 
When working on the derivative, how did you determine a solution of f'(x) = 0 was x = 0?

When you did that, did you consider that the function is periodic? There may be other solutions.
 
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