University of Toronto at Scarborough

Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

MATA37 Summer 2023

Assignment # 2

You are may wish to work on this assignment prior to your tutorial during
the week of May22 nd. You may ask questions about this assignment in that
tutorial.

STUDY: Chapter 4, Sections: 4.3 (OMIT Thm 4.13 - we can always derive
these results by definition),

HOMEWORK:

At the beginning of your TUTORIAL during the week of May 29th you
may be asked to either submit the following “Homework” problems or write a
quiz based on this assignment and/or related material from the lectures and
textbook readings. (Make sure to bring a printed/written copy of your Home-
work solutions tutorial week of May 29th.) This part of your assignment will
count towards the 22.5% of your final mark, which is based on weekly assign-
ments / quizzes.

1. Express each of the following limits as a definite integral, i.e., use “reverse
engineering” to write the following limit as a definite integral. Make sure
to fully justify your solutions.

(a)
n r
X 3 3i
lim 1+ .
n→∞
i=1
n n

(b) "  #
n 5
X 2i 2 √
lim 3 1+ −6 with a = 2.
n→∞
i=1
n n
2. Let a, b ∈ R, a < b. Using only the Riemann definition of the definite
integral, prove : if f and g are integrable on [a, b] and f (x) ≥ g(x) on
Z b Z b
−
[a, b] then for any c ∈ R , cf (x)dx ≤ c g(x)dx. Make sure to
a a
fully justify your work.
Z 4√
3. Prove that 1 + x2 dx ≥ 7.5 Make sure to fully justify your work.
1

4. Let a, b ∈ R, a < b. The following definite integral property is called

“The union interval property”.

If f is integrable on [a, b], then for any c ∈ (a, b)

Z b Z c Z b
f (x)dx = f (x)dx + f (x)dx.
a a c

(a) Provide a sample diagram to illustrate this property. That is, care-
fully draw and label an example picture to illustrate the union in-
terval property.
(b) (Challenge - not graded) Use only the Riemann definition of the
definite integral to prove the Union Interval Property.
(c) Prove or disprove : If f is integrable on [a, b] then for any c ∈ R,
Z b Z c Z b
f (x)dx = f (x)dx + f (x)dx.
a a c
Z 10 Z 7 Z b
5. Write f (x)dx− f (x)dx as a single integral of the form f (x)dx.
2 2 a
Make sure to justify your solution.

6. Which of the following functions are integrable on the interval [0, 2]?
Provide brief justification to support your answer.

(a) f (x) = x2 sin(x)

(b) f (x) = sec(x)

x + 1 if x ∈ [0, 1)
(c) f (x) =
2 − x if x ∈ [1, 2]

2
 
(x + 1)−2 if x ̸= 1
(d) f (x) =
1 if x = 1

7. Evaluate the following integrals using only methods from the allowable
“STUDY” section of this assignment. That is, using either the Riemann
definition of the definite integral, or “geometrically” (i.e. sketch and
shade in the signed area described by the integral and find the area of
this shaded region by interpreting it as a sum of areas of simple geometric
shapes), or definite integral properties (summary of available properties
in the Modules on Quercus).
Z 5
2 + 3x − x2 dx


(a)
1
Z 2  √ 
(b) 1 − |x| + 4− x2 dx
−2
Z b
a+b
(c) Let a, b ∈ R, a < b. f (x) dx where f (x) = 1 for x > 2
and
a
f (x) = −2 for x ≤ a+b
2
.
Z 1
(d) f (x) dx where f (x) = −x for x ≥ 0 and f (x) = x + 4 for x < 0.
−4

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wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines
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