MA103 Mock Midterm

Name:
Time Allowed: 80 minutes
Total Value: 70 marks
Number of Pages: 6
Instructions:
Non-programmable, non-graphing calculators are permitted. No other aids allowed.
Answer in the spaces provided.
Show all your work. Insucient justication will result in a loss of marks.
If you would like some personal feedback on your work by having it graded, then submit your
completed mock test paper to Tina Balfour by Thursday June 12th at 5:00pm.
(BA432; you can slide your paper under my oce door if I dont happen to be in when you drop by.)
1. [6 marks] Write your answer to each of the following questions in the space provided. No justication
is necessary.
(a) lim
x!1
5
1=x
=
(b) lim
x!1
_
e

_
x
=
(c) The domain of the function f (x) = sin
1
x is
(d) True or False? If a and b are any real values, then ln(ab) = lna + lnb.
(e) If f (x) = jx + 5j, then f is not dierentiable at x =
(f) If f (x) = sin (x), then the 103
rd
derivative, f
(103)
(x) =
2. [4 marks] Evaluate the limit: lim
!0
sin()
sin(2) + tan(3)
.
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3. [6 marks] Consider the function f (x) =
_
_
_
ln(x) 3x , x 1

x
2
x 2

x + 1
, x > 1
.
(a) Determine if f is continuous at x = 1.
(b) Based on our answer to part (a) alone, can we make a conclusion about the dierentiability of f
at x = 1? Explain your answer.
4. [5 marks] Use the formal denition of a limit to prove lim
x!10
_
3
4
5
x
_
= 5.
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5. [5 marks] Find the equations of all horizontal asymptotes of the function
f (x) =
4x 1
2
p
x
2
1
.
Justify each of your answers by evaluating an appropriate limit.
6. [8 marks]
(a) Give the precise statement of the Intermediate Value Theorem (IVT).
(b) Use the IVT to show that the equation e
x
tan
1
(x) =

2
has a solution in the interval (0; 1).
Verify that the IVT may be applied.
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7. [5 marks] Prove the derivative formula for the inverse hyperbolic cosine function:
d
dx
_
cosh
1
x

=
1
p
x
2
1
.
[Hint: Implicit dierentiation will be helpful!]
8. [6 marks] Use a linearization, or dierentials, to approximate the value of
3
p
7:95.
9. [4 marks] Suppose g and h are functions such that g (x) = ln(1 + h(
p
x)), h(2) = 1 and
h
0
(2) = 1.
Find g
0
(4).
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10. [5 marks] Consider f (x) = (x + 1)
x
2
, x > 1.
Determine the equation of the tangent line to y = f (x) at the point (0; 1).
11. [6 marks] Use the Mean Value Theorem to prove:
tanx
x
> 1, for 0 < x <

2
.
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12. [10 marks] Consider the function f (x) = xcos x sinx, x 2 [0; 2].
(a) Explain why f has absolute extrema on the interval [0; 2].
(b) Determine all critical values (numbers) of f in the interval [0; 2].
(c) Find the absolute extrema of f on [0; 2].
(d) State, with justication, the range of f.
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