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This document provides instructions for a math assignment due on January 20, 2014. It includes 4 warmup problems calculating derivatives and evaluating them. Students are instructed to show their work on printouts and separate sheets of paper. The assignment also includes 9 problems involving derivatives, rates of change, and tangent lines. Students are asked to show graphs and calculations for specific problems. Correct answers are provided to check the work.

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Mathassnigment 1

This document provides instructions for a math assignment due on January 20, 2014. It includes 4 warmup problems calculating derivatives and evaluating them. Students are instructed to show their work on printouts and separate sheets of paper. The assignment also includes 9 problems involving derivatives, rates of change, and tangent lines. Students are asked to show graphs and calculations for specific problems. Correct answers are provided to check the work.

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Ryan James Borgatti

MATH1P97D03FW2013 02

WeBWorK assignment number web2 winter 2014 is due : 01/20/2014 at 02:32am EST.
Use 4 significant digits in all calculated answers. Also you can use fractions. Good Luck!

Questions, 2, 3,4 are to be answered on the pdf printout.


Questions 5,6,7 on one piece of paper, and questions 8 and 9
on another piece of paper. The Wolfram Alpha graphs can be
made smaller, around 6 cm on each side is a good size.
Staple the webwork in the front and the other two pages behind. You are welcome to put a colour border or highlighter on
your name in order to more easily find your assignment when
marked.
...........................
The graph of a function is given. Determine the average rate
of change ( slope of the secant) of the function between the indicated values of the independent variable (in red).

Problem 1. 1. (1 pt) Do these questions first for a warm


up. Find the derivatives of the following functions and evaluate
when x = 1.
.
f (x) = 1.8x3 .
f 0 (1) =
g(x) = 3x2 3x + 6.
g0 (1) =

h(x) =
h0 (1) =

r(x) =
r0 (1) =

6
.
5x4

2
x .
x

Answer submitted:

5.4 (score 0.5)


3 (score 0.5)
0.3 (score 0.5)
-3.5 (score 0.5)

Correct Answers:

5.4
3
-4.8
1.5

Note: you can get an enlarged view of the graph by clicking on


it.
Average rate of change =
To write on the graph
a. Draw a line tangent to the graph at each of the end points of
the secant. Make these tangent lines long and draw large triangles, labeling rise = ... and run = .. on the appropriate sides.
b. Beside each tangent line, calculate its slope.
c. On the graph, with a red pen, draw on the curve to indicate
where f(x) is negative and increasing. On the graph with a blue
pen, draw on the curve to indicate where f(x) is positive and
decreasing.

Problem 2. 2. (1 pt)
NOTE: For this week the webwork must be handed in with
written answers to all of the questions except question 1 (
except for some people in the online course who have already
contacted me and will be doing a different online assignment).
Print out the webwork, (to include your own online submitted answers and the correct answers,) by clicking in the box to
the left of the completed webwork on Home page, Download
Hard Copy, Show answers. It sometimes takes a while for the
answers to show up after you have completed the webwork. So
wait a bit and then try logging out and in again. This must be a
pdf file , it must include correct answers , because the mark
from the webwork is combined with that of the written part by
the TA when marking. Marks will be deducted if it is not this
pdf file format.

Answer submitted:
-0.5 (correct)
Correct Answers:
-0.5
1

Problem 6. 6. (1 pt) A cricket jumps in the air with a velocity of 3.2 m/s. Its height (in meters) after t seconds is given by
h = 3.2t 4.9t 2 .
a. How fast is the cricket moving after t = 0.11 seconds?
m/s
b. What is the average velocity between the start and t=0.11
seconds?
m/s
c. It will reach the highest point and start to fall down
when the velocity is zero. At what time will this happen? t
seconds.
=
Answer this question on the separate page, under question 5.

Problem 3. 3. (1 pt) The profit from selling x boxes of snow


shovels in January, is given by P(x) = 0.07x2 + 35x 940 dollars.
Find the marginal profit when 260 boxes are sold.
dollars/box
Write the answer for this ( 3 lines of work) on the webwork
pdf printout under the question.
Answer submitted:
-1.4 (correct)
Correct Answers:
-1.4

Problem 4. 4. (1 pt) A gardener working for a landscaping company is digging holes and planting flowers. The number of flowers planted, t hours after starting at 8:00, is given by
N(t) = 15t + 3t 2 1.7t 3 .
a. How many flowers had been planted by 10:00 am? (Do
not round, use 4 sig dig)
flowers
b. At what rate is the number of flowers planted changing at
10:00 am?
flowers/hour
Write the answer to this question, on the webwork pdf
printout under the question.

Answer submitted:
-28.16 (score 0.333333343267441)
0.29271 (score 0.333333343267441)
0.3265306 (score 0.333333343267441)
Correct Answers:
2.122
2.661
0.326530612244898

Problem 7. 7. (1 pt) A vine climbs up a house and is headed


under the eavestrough and may damage the roof. The height
above a windownear the roof can be modeled by the function
h(t) = 13t + 10 t mm after t days.
The height above the window after 10 days is
mm.
The growth rate after 10 days is
mm/day.
Answer this question on the separate page under question 6 or on the back of that page.

Answer submitted:
6.6 (incorrect)
3.3 (incorrect)
Correct Answers:
28.4
6.6

Answer submitted:
161.6227766 (score 0.5)
16.16227766 (score 0.5)
Correct Answers:
161.622776601684
14.5811388300842

Problem 5. 5. (1 pt) a. Find the equation of the straight line


tangent to the graph of the function f (x) = 2x2 2x + 7 at the
point (5, 67).
The equation of this tangent line can be written in the form
y = mx + b
where m is:
and where b is:

Problem 8. 8. (1 pt) Find the equation of the tangent line to


the curve y = 4x2 + 16 at the point (1, 20)
The equation of this tangent line can be written in the form
y = mx + b where m is:
and where b is:
To hand in on a new piece of paper: (This piece of paper
will be for questions 8 and 9.)
Plot a graph of the function and the tangent with Wolfram
Alpha, using a scale to clearly illustrate them. Copy and paste.
Under or beside the graph do the following:
By taking the appropriate limit, use the Limit Definition of the
Derivative in Sec 2.1 to find the derivative of the function. Be
sure to use all the steps and use proper mathematical format as
on page 83 and 84. The method will count for marks not the
final answer. Using the derivative found in this way show the
calculation of the equation of the tangent line.

On separate paper hand in:


Make a graph with Wolfram Alpha of the function and the
tangent line together on the same plot, with a scale that illustrates the tangent line clearly. Beside the graph write the calculations for finding the equation of the tangent line.
Answer submitted:
4 (incorrect)
-2 (incorrect)
Correct Answers:
-22
-43
2

b. How many discontinuities are present in the function below?


x3
g(x) = 7
x + 4x6 21x5
Number of discontinuities =
To hand in, on same page as question 8.
Plot each function with Wolfram Alpha. Label the discontinuities with an arrow pointing to the curve and write x=.. for
each and write whether the discontinuity is a hole or an asymptote.

Answer submitted:
8 (incorrect)
0 (incorrect)
Correct Answers:
-8
12

Problem 9. 9. (1 pt) a. There is a discontinuity of the function


f (x) =
at x =

Answer submitted:
3 (correct)
3 (correct)
Correct Answers:
3
3

x7 + 4x6 21x5
x3

c
Generated by the WeBWorK system WeBWorK
Team, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester

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