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Science FESNS FEAS
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Question # Points Available Points Earned
Total 45
1. [ 6 marks] An outdoor sensor light is at the top of 4m gate. Mary is 1.6m tall, and walks away from
the gate in a straight path with a speed of o.3m/s. How fast is the tip of her shadow moving when she is
9m from the gate?
3. Given the function ๐
๐ฅ
3
โ
1
2
๐ฅ
2
(a) [4 marks] Find all of the critical numbers of ๐(๐ฅ).
(b) [4 marks] For the function from part (a) use closed interval method to find the absolute maximum
and the absolute minimum on the interval [โ 1 ,
1
3
]. [If your answer is in decimal form, you
should round to 3 decimal places]
(c) [3 marks] Find lim
๐ฅโ 0
1 โ๐
โ 3 ๐ฅ
1 โ๐
โ 2 ๐ฅ
4. Let ๐
2
2
. Answer the following questions, knowing that
โฒ
2
โฒโฒ
2
(a) [1 mark] ๐ is increasing on: ____________________________________
(b) [1 mark] ๐ is decreasing on: ____________________________________
(c) [1 mark] ๐ has local max(s) at ๐ฅ =________ and local min(s) at ๐ฅ =_____________
(d) [1 mark] ๐ is concave up on: ______________________________________________
(e) [1 mark] ๐ is concave down on: ____________________________________________
(f) [1 mark] ๐ has inflection point(s) at ๐ฅ =______________________________________
(g) [1 mark] Sketch a graph of the function based on the information above:
a) Given the function ๐(๐ฅ) = ๐ฅ
2
โ ๐ฅ as ๐ฅ changes from 1 to 1. 2 and considering differentials:
b) The graph of some function
is shown below. Which of the following statements are true?
in the interval [2, 6]. Which the following
is guaranteed by the Mean Value Theorem?