OCR H240/02 2021 November — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleH240/02 (Pure Mathematics and Statistics)
Year2021
SessionNovember
TopicSign Change & Interval Methods
TypeExplain Sign Change Method Failure

2 The diagram shows part of the graph of \(y = \mathrm { f } ( x )\), where \(\mathrm { f } ( x )\) is a cubic polynomial in \(x\).
\includegraphics[max width=\textwidth, alt={}, center]{7298e7b9-ad52-480c-bc2b-8289aeab9ebb-04_437_620_909_274} Explain why one of the roots of the equation \(\mathrm { f } ( x ) = 0\) cannot be found by the sign change method.