Use the 1st derivative test to find the intervals where the function is increasing or decreasing. Please show your work so I can get a better understanding on how you achieved the solution. Thank you.

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.