School of Mathematics and Statistics
Carleton University
Math. 69.107
SOLUTIONS TO TEST 2
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PART I: Multiple Choice Questions
(Choose and CIRCLE only ONE answer)
(a) -1,
0, (c) 1, (d) This derivative does not exist.
(a)
, (b)
, (c)
,
.
, (b)
, (c)
, (d)
.
(a) no point whatsoever,
, (c) x=0 only, (d)
, only.
If
then, for each x, its derivative
(a) TRUE,
FALSE
a)
.
Solution: Let
. Then
. When x=0, u=0 and when
, u=0. and so
Alternately,
Thus,
b)
Use the Table Method:
and the final answer can be written as,
a) Determine all the intervals where f is increasing and decreasing.
Hint: Use the Sign Decomposition Table of f.
Solution:We know that
.
The Sign Decomposition Table of
is given by
It follows that f is increasing if
, that is, when x is in either (-1, 0) or
.
Similarly, f is decreasing when
, which in this case means that x is in the interval
or in the interval (0, 1). b) In what intervals is f concave up
and concave down?
Solution: In this case, we don' t need the SDT of
since
looks like
Note that
when
or, equivalently, when
. So f is concave up in this case.
Similarly we can see that f is concave down when
. This makes
a point of inflection!