CALCULUS (ASSIGNMENT FOUR)

February 12, 2012

Q1. A manufacturer can produce tape recorders at a cost of $20 a piece. It is estimated that if the recorders are sold for p dollars a piece,consumers will buy q = 120 p recorders each mouth. a). Express the manufacturers prot P as a function of q. b). What is the average rate of prot obtained as the level of production increases from q = 0 toq = 20? c). At what rate is prot changing when q = 20 recorders are produced? Is the prot increasing or decreasing at this level of production? Q2. experiments indicate that when a ea jumps, it height (in meters) after t seconds is given by hthe function. H(t) = 4.4t 4.9t 2 a). Find H (t). At what rate is H(t) changing after 1 second? Is it increasing or decreasing. b). At what time is H (t) = 0? What is the signicance of this time? c). When does the e a land (return to it initial height)? At what rate is H (t) changing at this time ? Is it increasing or deccreasing? Q3. Use calculus to prove that if y = mx + b,then the rate of change of y with respect to x is constant. Q4. Let f be the absolute value function, that is, x, i f x, i f x 0 x<0 1

f (x) =

show that f (x) = 1, i f 1, i f x>0 x<0

Q5. Let f be a function that is differentiable at x = c a). Explain why f (c) = limxc f (x) f (c) xc b). Use the result of part (a) together with the fact that f (x) f (c) = [ f (x) f (c) ](x c) xc to show that limxc [ f (x) f (c)] = 0 c). Explain why the result obtained in part (b) show that f is continuous at x = c