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Final Lab
Bonus 3
Justin Drawbert
August 10, 2010
In our Final Lab Bonus Project 3, we are asked to consider the triangle formed by the x-axis,
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y-axis, and the tangent line to the curve y = 2x at x = a.
A
1/(2x)
a
We are then asked to find an expression for the area, A, of the triangle in terms of a and to deter-
mine what happens as a → ∞.
y − f (a) = f ′ (a)(x − a)
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So we now have our equation for our line. We can see that the triangle formed by the tangent line
is a right triangle so we know the equation for the area is simply
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b·h
2
Where b is the base, or in this case our x-intercept minus 0 and h is the height, or our y-intercept
minus 0.
We solve for our x-intercept by setting the equation of the line equal to 0 and then solving for
x.
1 1
0=− x+
2a2 a
1 1
x=
2a2 a
1
x = · 2a2
a
x = 2a