Suppose and .

(a) Find and .

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(b) Use and to determine when and are increasing and decreasing. Then, find the intervals of for which the motion of the curve is up, down, right, and left in the -plane. (Your answers below should be intervals of values.)

Up and to the right:
Up and to the left:
Down and to the right:
Down and to the left:

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