Dilla University

College of Natural and Computational Sciences

DEPARTEMENT OF MATHEMATICS (2015)

Assignment of Mathematics for Social science ( Math101).

1. Your high school is organizing an event for alumni. The planning committee decides to rent a

large space and get dinner catered. The space costs $1000 for the evening and each dinner is

an additional $25. To honor the 12 oldest alumni, the committee will not charge them for

dinner. Instead, their dinners will be included in the total cost to the committee. The

committee simply wants to break even, not turn a profit.

[ Hint: A function is as a function of attendee( ), that is .]

a). what is the domain of this function in the context of the problem.

b). Find the limits of the function at 5 and .

c). What is the practical meaning of the Vertical and Horizontal asymptotes.

d). Is the function continuous ? If it is so, give the domain of continuity and what is

the practical meaning of continuity in the context of this problem.

e). Draw the graph of a function.

2. Suppose that ⁄ ( ) represents the concentration of a drug in a

patient’s blood stream hours after the drug was administered.

a). what is the domain of this function in the context of the problem.

b). When the concentration of the drug is maximized or minimized.

c). What is the maximum and the minimum value of the concentration of the drug.

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3. A garden is to be laid out in a rectangular area and protected by a chicken wire fence. What is

the largest possible area of the garden if only 220 running feet of chicken wire is available

for the fence ?

4. A liquid form of antibiotic manufactured by a pharmaceutical firm is sold in bulk at a price of

$200 per unit. If the total production cost ( in dollars) for units is

and if the production capacity of the firm is at most 30,000 units in a specified time, how

many units of antibiotic must be manufactured and sold in that time to maximize the profit ?

[ Hint: Total revenue for selling units is , the profit on units will be

– – ].

5. A spring exerts a force of 24 N when stretched 2 m beyond its natural length.

a). Find the spring constant k.

b). How much work is required to stretch the spring 3 m beyond its natural length ?

[ Hint: Hooke’s law, . and W=∫ ]

Date of Submission

January 20/2015