LA SALLE COLLEGE ANTIPOLO

Basic Education Unit-Senior High School

TAKE HOME ACTIVITY 2

SSMth2: Basic Calculus
2nd Semester AY 2019- 2020

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General Direction:
1. Write your solutions and answers in clean sheet of long bond paper.
2. All answers must be in simplest form.
3. All kinds of erasures are not allowed.
4. Submission is next week.

Part 1: Direction: Find the slope and equation of the tangent line given the
parameters below. Write the equation in slope-intercept form.

1. 𝑓 (𝑥 ) = 𝑥 3 − 2𝑥 + 1 𝑎𝑡 𝑥 = 2
2. 𝑓 (𝑥 ) = 𝑥 + √𝑥 𝑎𝑡 𝑥 = 1
𝑥−5
3. 𝑓 (𝑥 ) = 𝑎𝑡 𝑥 = −3
𝑥+1

4. 𝑓 (𝑥 ) = 𝑥 2 − 3𝑥 + 4 𝑎𝑡 𝑥 = −1

Part 2: Direction: Using the definition of differentiation, find the derivatives of the
functions below.

5. 𝑓 (𝑥 ) = 𝑥 5 + 2𝑥 3 + 1 7. 𝑓 (𝑥 ) = √𝑥 + 2 − 𝑥
𝑥 2 −4
6. 𝑓 (𝑥 ) = 8. 𝑓 (𝑥 ) = √
2
𝑥+1
𝑥

Part 3: Direction: Using Rules on Differentiation, find the derivatives of the

functions below.
9. 𝑓(𝑥 ) = sin 𝑥 cos 𝑥 12. 𝑓(𝑥 ) = 𝑥 3 cot 𝑥
tan 𝑥
10. 𝑓(𝑥 ) = 13. 𝑓(𝑥 ) = √𝑥 ln 𝑥
𝑒𝑥

11. 𝑓(𝑥 ) = 𝑥 √𝑥 14. 𝑓(𝑥 ) = 𝑥 tan−1 𝑥

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Part 4: Direction: Using Chain Rule, find the derivatives of the following functions
15.𝑓(𝑥) = (𝑥 3 + 5𝑥 2 − 2𝑥 − 7)4
16.𝑓(𝑥) = sin 3𝑥 ∙ ln 𝑥 2
2 −4𝑥+1
17.𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑒 𝑥

Part 5: Direction: Solve for the higher order derivatives of the functions below
𝑑5
18.𝑓(𝑥) = 3𝑥 6 − 2𝑥 5 + 4𝑥 4 − 5𝑥 3 − 7𝑥 2 + 5𝑥 + 24, 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑓(𝑥)
𝑑𝑥 5

19.𝑓(𝑥) = 2 sin 2𝑥 , 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑦 (10)

20.𝑓(𝑥) = 3𝑒 2𝑥 , 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑥7 𝑦

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