Math 124 Final Examination Spring 2023

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• This exam is closed book. You may use one 8.5′′ × 11′′ sheet of handwritten notes (both sides
OK). Do not share notes. No photocopied or printed materials are allowed.
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• Give your answers in exact form unless instructed otherwise. For example, or 5 3 are exact
3
numbers while 1.047 and 8.66 are decimal approximations for the same numbers.

• You can only use a Texas Instruments TI-30X IIS calculator.

• In order to receive credit, you must show all of your work. If you do not indicate the way
in which you solved a problem, you may get little or no credit for it, even if your answer is
correct.

• This exam has 11 pages plus this cover page with 8 questions. Please make sure that your
exam is complete.

Problem Score Problem Score Problem Score

1 (14 pts) 4 (12 pts) 7 (13 pts)
2 (12 pts) 5 (12 pts) 8 (15 pts)
3 ( 10 pts) 6 (12 pts) Total
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1. (14 total points) Answer the following.

 
1 1
(a) (5 points) Compute lim+ (x ln x) and lim+ +
x→0 x→0 x ln x

x2 − 4
(b) (4 points) Leibniz computed lim = 5 using L’Hospital’s Rule. What is f (2)?
x→2 9 − (f (x))2
What is f ′ (2)?

f (2) = f ′ (2) =

(c) (5 points) Determine if the following are True or False. Circle the correct answer.
f (x)
True False (i) If lim f (x) = 5 and lim g(x) = 0, then lim = ∞.
x→3 x→3 x→3 g(x)

True False (ii) If lim f (x) = lim g(x), then lim f ′ (x) = lim g ′ (x).
x→a x→a x→a x→a

True False (iii) If f ′ (x) = g ′ (x) for all x, then f (x) = g(x) for all x.

True False (iv) If lim+ f (x) = ∞, then x = 4 is a vertical asymptote for the graph y = f (x).
x→4

3x2 + ex x3 + ex
True False (v) If f ′ (x) = , then f (x) = .
cos x sin x
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2. (12 total points) Find the derivatives of the following functions. You do not have to simplify
your answers.
q
(a) (4 points) h(x) = 2 sin2 (x) + 1.

(b) (4 points) g(x) = (ax2 + b)e−cx where a, b, c are constants.

2
(c) (4 points) y = (cos(x))x .
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3. (10 points) The function f (x) is differentiable everywhere and f (0) = 0. Answer the questions
based on the graph of y = f ′ (x), the derivative of f (x), shown below.

y = f ′ (x)

f (x)
(a) lim
x→0 x
= (b) f ′′ (11) =

(c) List all values of x where the graph of y = f (x) has a local minimum.

Answer:
(d) List all intervals where the graph of y = f (x) is concave down.

Answer:
(e) If g(x) = f (f (x)), what is g ′ (0)?

g ′ (0) =
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4. (12 total points) One point on the curve defined by

x4 + 3xy + y 4 = 5

is P = (1, 1).
dy
(a) (4 points) Find the formula for the implicit derivative .
dx

(b) (4 points) Write the equation of the tangent line at P .

(c) (4 points) Is the curve defined by the equation concave up or concave down at the point
P ? Explain.
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5. (12 points) A pizza delivery chain has found that the number of veggy pizzas it can sell on a
Friday night is closely modeled by the function

N (x) = 1000 − 240 ln(x/12) − 20x,

where x is the cost of the pizza in dollars. The current price is $12. The pizza chain want to
have their sales on Friday night increase by 50 pizzas. Use linear approximation to estimate
the required new pizza price.
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6. (12 points) A balloon is at a height of 40 meters, and is rising at the constant rate of 8m/sec.
At that instant a bicycle passes beneath it, traveling in a straight line at the constant speed of
10m/sec. How fast is the distance between them increasing 3 seconds later?
The picture below is not to scale.
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7. (13 points) A tourist group is going to see the ruins across the channel of water. The ruins are
at a 100 kilometer horizontal distance from the hotel at a point 10 kilometers across a body
of water as shown on the diagram. They can take a bus to drive them by the shore and then
they can get on a boat at any point on the shore to get to the other side. The bus travels at
45 kilometers per hour and the boat at 30 kilometers per hour. What is the shortest amount
of time in which they can make it to the ruins?
Assume that there is no current and the boat can go straight to the ruins. The drawing is not
to scale.
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8. (15 points) Let f (x) = 0.5x2 e−0.1x be defined on the domain D = [−5, 50].

(a) Determine the sub-intervals of D where f (x) is increasing.

(b) Determine the sub-intervals of D where the graph of y = f (x) is concave up.

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8. (continued) Recall the function f (x) = 0.5x2 e−0.1x

(c) Find the inflection points on the graph, if any. You can give your answer in decimals
rounded to one digit after the decimal.

(d) Find the absolute maximum and absolute minimum values of the function on D. You can
give your answer in decimals rounded to one digit after the decimal.

(e) Sketch the graph y = f (x) using the grid below. Clearly label the (x, y) coordinates of
endpoints, all critical points, and points of inflection. Make sure your graph matches with
the information you provided above.
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