Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

MAT 110
FINAL ASSIGNMENT
SPRING 2021
SET: 5(FAB)

Please write your group name and the names and IDs of all your group
members on the first page of the assignment answer script. The last date of
submission is 26th May 2021 1159 pm or 27th May 2021 1159 pm, depending
on your set. Solve all problems.

You can only submit a PDF file - image or doc files won’t be accepted.
Before submitting the PDF, please rename the PDF file in the format -
SET_GROUPNAME. You MUST mention the names and IDs of all
your group members on the cover page. If you fail to do so, they
will not be given any marks.

Plagiarism will lead to an F grade in the course.

If you have any questions regarding the assignment and grading, please
contact FAB on Slack.

1. Suppose that the percentage of U.S households with broad-band Internet ac-
cess is modeled by the equation
5300
p(t) =
53 + 47e−0.182t
where p(t) is the percentage t years after an initial survey result made in the
year 2007.

(a) Use a graphing utility to graph the function p(t).

(b) Explain what happens to the percentage over time?
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(c) In words, what happens to the rate of population growth over time?
Check your conclusion by graphing dp
dt
.

2. Hercules Films is deciding on the price of the video release of its film Bride of
the Son of Frankenstein. Marketing estimates that at a price of p dollars, it
can sell q = 200, 000 − 10, 000p copies, but each copy cost $4 to make. What
price will give the greatest profit?

(a) What price will give the greatest profit?

(b) Find the maximum profit.

3. A man 6f t tall is walking at the rate of 3f t/s toward a streetlight 18f t high.

(a) At what rate is his shadow length changing?

(b) How fast is the tip of his shadow moving?
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4. Consider the function f (x) = 3 x.

(a) Find the first and second Taylor polynomials for f at x = 3 . Use a
graphing utility to compare these polynomials with f near x = 3.
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(b) Use these two polynomials to estimate 3 6 .

5. Find the nth derivative of

1
(a) y = 1−5x+6x2
.
(b) y = sin 6x cos 4x.

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