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Learning. The lime T (in minutes) it takes a person to learn list of length n is
- (A) When is the rate of change of T with respect to the length of the list increasing? Decreasing?
- (B) Where does the graph of T have inflection points?
- (C) Graph T and T′ on the same
coordinate system . - (D) What is the minimum value of T′(n)?
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