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Calculus Midterm Practice 2

This document contains 12 practice questions for a test on differential calculus. The questions cover topics like proving identities, evaluating functions given information about their inputs, finding values that satisfy equations or inequalities, determining properties of functions, graphing functions, performing operations on functions, solving equations and inequalities, evaluating limits, and evaluating trigonometric functions. The document provides the questions and fully worked out solutions.

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Calculus Midterm Practice 2

This document contains 12 practice questions for a test on differential calculus. The questions cover topics like proving identities, evaluating functions given information about their inputs, finding values that satisfy equations or inequalities, determining properties of functions, graphing functions, performing operations on functions, solving equations and inequalities, evaluating limits, and evaluating trigonometric functions. The document provides the questions and fully worked out solutions.

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03-62-140 Differential Calculus Fall 2016

Practice Questions for Test 1


1. Prove the identity:
(a) sec x − cos x = tan x sin x
(b) sin(x + y) sin(x − y) = sin2 x − sin2 y
2. If tan x = 31 and sec y = 13
12
√
, where x and y lie between π and 2π, evaluate csc(x − y)
13 10 4
and cos 2x. Answer: − 27 , 5
3. Find all values of x ∈ [0, 2π] that satisfy the equation
5 cos x − 2 sin2 x = 1
π 5π
Answer: ,
3 3

4. Find all values of x in the interval [0, 2π] that satisfy the inequality
sin x > cos x
π 5π

Answer: ,
4 4

5. Determine if the following functions are one-to-one, even, odd, periodic. Determine
the intervals of increase/decrease.
(a) f (x) = 2x2 − 10x + 1. Answer: Not 1-1, Neither even nor odd, not periodic,
interval of decrease:(−∞, 2.5), interval of increase: (2.5, ∞)
(b) f (x) = − sin 2x, on theinterval [−π,
 π]. Answer: Not 1-1, not 3πeven, odd, not
periodic, inc: − 3π
4
, − π
4
, π
4
, − 3π
4
, dec: −π, − 3π
4
, − π π
,
4 4
, 4
, π
(c) f (x) = ln(2x − 2) − 5. Answer: 1-1, neither even nor odd, not periodic, inc:
(1, ∞)
6. Find a formula for the inverse of the given function. Also find the domain and range
of f and f −1 .
3x + 2 9x − 2
(a) f (x) = Answer: f −1 (x) = , dom f =range f −1 = (−∞, 9)∪(9, ∞)
−x + 9 3+x
domain f −1 =range f = (−∞, −3) ∪ (−3, ∞)
√ 1
(b) f (x) = 20x − 5 Answer: f −1 (x) = (x2 + 5), dom f =range f −1 = [1/4, ∞)
20
dom f −1 =range f = [0, ∞)
7. Graph the function by hand, not by plotting points, but by starting with the graph
of one of√ the standard functions and applying the appropriate transformations.
x−2
(a)y = 2x + 4 − 2 (b) y = e +1
√
8. Find f + g, f g, g ◦ f , and f ◦ g where f (x) = x1 and g(x) = sin 3x − x + 1. Answer:
√
1 √ sin 3x − x + 1
(f + g)(x) = + sin 3x − x + 1, (f g)(x) = ,
x r x
3 1 1
(g ◦ f )(x) = sin − + 1, (f ◦ g)(x) = √
x x sin 3x − x + 1
9. Solve each equation/inequality for x.

(a) log(x + 1) + log(x − 2) = 1. Answer: x = 4


(b) ex+5 > 1. Answer: x > −5

10. Without using calculator evaluate: tan sin−1 1



3

11. Evaluate the following limits:


√ √
h2 + 15 − h + 15
(a) lim √ . Answer: 0
h→0 h+3−2
√ √
h2 + 15 − h + 15
(b) lim √ . Answer: 1/2
h→1 h+3−2
x2 − 3x + 2
(c) lim 2 . Answer: 1/5
x→2 2x − 3x − 2

(h + 4)2 − 16
(d) lim . Answer: 8
h→0 h
x4 − 3x2 + 10
(e) lim 2 . Answer: 2
x→1 x + 2x + 1

|x − 1|
(f) lim 2 . Answer: LHL=-1/2 and RHL=1/2, so limit DNE
x→1 x − 1

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