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The hypotheses ensure that the function behaves smoothly enough for an interior tangent to match the secant slope. A sharp interior corner or a jump at an endpoint can remove this guarantee.

Conditions: The function fails to be continuous on $[a,b]$ or differentiable on $(a,b)$.

The hypotheses ensure that the function behaves smoothly enough for an interior tangent to match the secant slope. A sharp interior corner or a jump at an endpoint can remove this guarantee.

Conditions: The function fails to be continuous on $[a,b]$ or differentiable on $(a,b)$.