February Regional 2018 Calculus Individual

Choice E is NOTA, meaning ‘none of the above answers are correct’ and D.N.E means that you think a limit or integral does not
exist. Be sure to read the questions carefully and have fun!

1) What is the slope of the line tangent to f  x   x  3x at x  3?

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A. 0 B. 9 C. 15 D. 18 E. NOTA

2) Negan’s favorite function is N  x  

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x 6  x 5 . What is the slope of the tangent line to N  x  at x  2?
5 1 5 7
A. B. C. D. E. NOTA
56 7 7 5

 2
3

  x 
2
3) Glenn is trying to compute the following integral. Help him out:  dx
1 x3 
86 70
A. B. C. 74 D. DNE E. NOTA
9 9 27

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4) During a time of severe drought, the volume of water in a conical well is decreasing a rate of  milliliters per
2
minute. If the total volume of water in the well is currently 24 milliliters, and the radius of the well is always
3 times the height, at what rate is the radius of the water decreasing (ignore units)?
1 1 1
A. B.  C. D. 6 E. NOTA
8 8 24

5) Rick is floating on a sailboat. He does one initial push using a paddle as he leaves the shore, and his distance
from shore in feet as time  t  0  in seconds progresses can be represented by R  t   1  t . Assuming
there are no other forces acting on the boat, which of the following statements is/are true?

I. If he were immortal and able to stay on the boat forever, his boat at some time t  0 comes to a complete
stop.
II. If he stays on the boat forever, his distance from shore increases at a decreasing rate.
III. After 4 seconds, he has moved 3 feet.
IV. There is some time t for which the boat’s average speed on 0  t  10 is the same as it’s instantaneous
speed.

A. I, III and IV only B. II and IV only

C. II, III, and IV only D. I and III only E. NOTA

6) What is the volume obtained when the area bound by the graph of x  25   y  5 
2
and the y-axis is
revolved around the line y  0 ?

A. 125 2 B.
500 C.
250 D.
125 E. NOTA
3 3 3

7) Find the volume of the largest hexagonal prism that can be inscribed in a sphere of radius 6 meters.
A. 144 m3 B. 216 m3 C. 144 3 m3 D. 432 m3 E. NOTA

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8) This 17th century German mathematician coined the integral symbol as the notation in which the area under a
curve is calculated. Fun fact: the elongated S integral symbol is from the latin summa, meaning sum.

A. Isaac Newton C. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

B. Euclid of Alexandria D. James Gregory E. NOTA

9) If f  x   cos  x  cos  4 x   sin  x  sin  4 x  , what is f ''  x  ?

A. 9cos  3x  C. 9sin  3x 
B. 25cos  5x  D. 25cos  3x   sin  5 x  E. NOTA

10) Triangle TWD is enclosed by the x-axis and the graph of S  x    x 2  2 x  3. Vertex T is located at the
negative root of S  x  and vertex W is located at the positive root of S  x  . At what point would the third

vertex D need to be located along the graph of S  x  to ensure that the area of TWD is maximized?

 3 15 
A.  ,  B. 1, 4 
2 4 
 5 63 
C.  0,3 D.  ,  E. NOTA
 4 16 

11) Beth is moving furniture into her bedroom. To complete her room, she must put in pipes. She needs to find the
longest length of a pipe that can turn a 90-degree corner from a hallway that is 125 inches wide to a hallway that
is 216 inches wide. Assuming that she only slides it along the carpet and it is always in contact with the outer
walls, what is the length she needs? See the image below, which is not drawn to scale.

A. 625 inches C. 381 inches

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 36  inches 3
 61 2 inches
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B.   D.
 5 
E. NOTA

x
12) On what interval is the graph of y decreasing?
x 1
2

A.  ,   B.  ,0    0, 2    2,  

C.  , 1   1,1  1,   D.  , 2    2, 2    2,   E. NOTA

13) The ε—δ precise definition of a limit states that for some function, f  x  , where lim f  x   L, there exists
x a

some values ε and δ such that f  x   L   when 0  x  a   . Find the maximum value for δ that can be
used to prove that lim 10 x  2   18 when   1.
x 2

1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D. E. NOTA
3 4 5 10

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Use the following information to answer the next three questions.
x x
Let f '  x   where x  1 , and let F  x   C   f '  x  dx where defined.
x 1

14) What is lim f '  x  ?

x 0
 
A. -1 B. 0 C. 1 D. ∞ E. NOTA


15) lim f '  x  =
x 1
 a
b
a
, where a and b are both positive integers and is in reduced form. What is ab?
b
A. 2 B. 6 C. 12 D. 15 E. NOTA

16) What is F  9   F  4  ?

4 9 2 3
A. 2 ln    3 B.  2ln  
3 2 2

C. 2 ln 2  6  1  D.
1 4
ln    3
2 3
E. NOTA

17) Maggie is training for the matrices and vectors test at the state convention, so she easily computes M  x 
according to the determinant below. Sasha is in the Calculus division and decides to find the x-coordinate of the
point of inflection of M  x  . What is the x-coordinate that Sasha found, given that

x x3 x
M  x  x 2 1?
1 6x 0
6 6 6 6 2
A. B. C. 0 D.  E. NOTA
15 15 5
    1
18) Use differentials to approximate sin   , using the fact that sin    .
7 6 2
42   3 42   3 42   6  3
A. B. C. D. E. NOTA
84 84 84 6

19) Which of the following must be true for a function f  x  that is continuous on the domain of all real numbers?

I. f  x  is differentiable on its entire domain.

II. f  x  will have some value c for which the Mean Value Theorem for Derivatives is satisfied.
b a

III. If f  x   0 on a, b , then    f  x  dx    f  x  dx .
a b

IV. If f  x  is concave down for all x and f '  x   0 where x  5 and f '  x   0 where x  5 , then

f  x  will have a local maximum at x  5.

A. I, II, and III B. III and IV C. II, III, and IV D. I and IV E. NOTA

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Use the following table to answer the next two questions.

In Tampa, it can get very hot early in the year. The following tables refers to actual temperatures recorded
on April 29, 2017 (Via Google, in °F):

Time 7:00am 10:00am 1:00pm 4:00pm 7:00pm 10:00pm

Temperature 77 84 93 95 93 83

20) What is the average change in temperature in Tampa between the hours of 7:00am and 4:00pm on this day (in
°F per hour)?

A. 2 B. 6 C. 6.1666… D. 18 E. NOTA

21) Using the data in the table provided, which of the following must be true?

A. The maximum temperature of Tampa that day was at 4:00 pm

B. The instantaneous rate of temperature change at 10:00am is greater than at 1:00pm.
C. Between the hours of 4:00pm and 10:00pm, temperature is decreasing at a decreasing rate.
D. At some time between 10:00am and 10:00pm, the rate of change of temperature was 0°F / hour.
E. NOTA

22) Daryl’s favorite part of calculus is limits, but even he gets stumped sometimes. Help him compute:

  2  h  2  h   4 
lim  
h 0  2h 
 

A. ln  4   2 B. ln  2  C. ln 16   4 D. e 2 E. NOTA

23) What is the maximum value of 2x y if x  y  8 ?

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A. 864 B. 750 C. 375 D. 96 E. NOTA

24) Rosita and Spencer are at the state convention and are racing Go-Karts. They line up at the same starting
position, and the announcer waves the green flag. Rosita starts from rest and accelerates at a constant rate of 4
ft
. Spencer, however, was daydreaming and began moving 5 seconds after Rosita, having constant
sec 2
ft
acceleration 6 . About how many seconds after the race begins will it take for him to overtake Rosita,
sec 2
assuming they maintain their respective accelerations for the entire race, and that the track is a straight line?
(choose the closest estimate)
A. 10 B. 20 C. 30 D. 40 E. NOTA

 d  x4  
25)
  dx  dx is equal to which of the following?
 
x5 x3
A. x4 B. 4x
3
C. D. E. NOTA
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26) What is the volume (in m3 ) of the largest sphere that can fit inside a cube of volume 64 m3 ?
16 32 128 256
A. B. C. D. E. NOTA
3 3 3 3

3 Let point P be the intersection between

27) Let f  x   x. f  x  and another line, g  x  , that intersects the y-
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axis at  0,8  but has a changing x-intercept. If P moves to the right along f  x  at a rate of 1 unit per second,
at what rate (in units per second) is the x-intercept of g  x  increasing when the distance between the origin
and P is 5 units?
441 411 256
A. B. C. D.  671 E. NOTA
125 251 125 1408

28) Thanks for helping Glenn on #3. Now that he knows you are good at integration, he has another question for
you. When he computes this integral…
1
12 x 4
 9  9 x2
dx
2
2

A
he obtains the answer  C . If A, B and C are all positive integers, what could be the value of A  B  C ?
B
A. 12 B. 21 C. 31 D. 39 E. NOTA


 
29) What is the arc length of the curve A  x    ln cos  x  from x  0 to x 
4
?

  2 6
 
1
A. ln  2  B. ln 2 1 C. D. ln 2  2 E. NOTA
2 4

30) Morgan has a magical cylinder inscribed in a magical sphere. The volume of the sphere is changing at a rate of
27 m3 per second when its volume is 36 m3 . At what rate is the height of the cylinder changing at this
moment, given that the cylinder is of maximum volume in the sphere (ignore units)?
3 3
A. B. C. 1 D. 6 E. NOTA
4 2

Make sure you bubbled correctly on your scantron.

Hint: “…So divide not by zero, and remember plus C …Love the world, love your mind, live your life mathematically.”

-- Jeffrey Doker, at the 2012 Mu Alpha Theta National Convention.

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