Midterm II

Math 1271, Spring 2022, Lecture 010

Name:

Discussion:

What not to do?

1. Cheat.
2. Use graphing calculators.
3. Talk to another person without the instructor's permission.
4. Skip steps to prove that you are smart.

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 1. (10 points) If the side of a cube is increasing at 1 cm/sec, at what rate is its
volume changing when the side is 10 cm.

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2. (15 points) Find the absolute maximum and absolute minimum of the function
 
ln x 1
f (x) = 2 on the interval ,4 .
x 2

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 3. Let
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f (x) = x4 − 4x2 + 3
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(a) (10 points) Find the intervals of increase and decrease.

(b) (5 points)Find the points at which the function attains local maxima and
local minima.

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 (c) (10 points) Find the intervals of concavity, both concave up and concave
down.

(d) (5 points) Find all the inection points.

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4. (10 points) Compute the limit
ex − 1 − x
lim
x→0 x2

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 5. (10 points) (a) The intermediate value theorem shows that the equation
x3 + x + 1 = 0

has a root in the interval [−2, 0]. Show that there is exactly one root.

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 (b) (7 points) Find the sequence given by applying Newton's method to solve the
equation x3 + x + 1 = 0.

(c) (8 points) Starting with x0 = −1, nd the root up to two decimal places.

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 6. (15 points) Find two numbers whose dierence is 100 and their product is a
minimum.