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The Woodlands Christian Academy – Fall, 2022

PAP Precalculus

EXAM 2 FREE RESPONSE

CALCULATOR PERMITTED
ANSWERS WITHOUT SUPPORTING WORK WILL NOT RECEIVE FULL CREDIT

1. Sketch a graph of so that will have all of the following properties:

is increasing and concave up for

is increasing and concave down for
is decreasing and concave down for

2. Given the function , find the range of .

3. Use the following chart containing values of to determine whether the function appears to be:
1 2 3 4 5
1.61 1.79 1.95 2.08 2.20

a) increasing or decreasing. Justify your answer.

b) concave up or concave down. Justify your answer.

4. Calculate the average rate of change for between x = –3 and x = –2.

5. In 2006, you earned $8.50 per hour at your job. In 2009, you earned $8.70 per hour at your job. In 2010,
you earned $9.30 per hour at your job.

a) What was the average rate of change in the amount you earned per hour between 2006 and 2009?

b) What was the average rate of change in the amount you earned per hour between 2009 and 2010?
Round answers to 3 decimal places if necessary.

6. A grocery store pays you $12.5 per hour for the first 40 hours per week and time and a half for overtime.
Write a piece-wise-defined function that represents your weekly earnings E(x) as a function of the number
of hours worked, x. Find the inverse function . What does the inverse function tell you?

7. Determine the concavity of the graph of between x = –1 and x = 2 by calculating average

rates of change over intervals of length 1. Is the graph concave up or concave down?
8. Let with the domain . Determine the domain of .

9. Farmer Brown starts with 120 cows and the average rate of change of his herd is 9 cows per year. Farmer
Jones starts his herd the same year with 170 cows and the average rate of change of his herd is 5 cows per
year.
a) After 10 years, which farmer has the most cows?

b) After 20 years, which farmer has the most cows?

10. Let and be two invertible functions such that and . Find .
Show all work. Round your answer to two decimal places, if necessary.

11. Let . Find the inverse function of 𝑓(𝑥).

12. Let . Find c so that the average rate of change of the function f between x = 1 and x = c is 8.
Answer Key - 21 Precal E2 FR

1. Sample answer:

2. range =
3. a) increasing
b) concave down
4. 7
5. a) $0.067 per year
b) $0.60 per year
6.

The inverse function gives the number of hours worked.

7. concave down
8. All x such that .
9. a) Farmer Jones
b) Farmer Brown
10. 3.00
11. no
12. 7