Final Exam Pointers and Practice Exercises

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (30 questions, 60 points)

Function, Domain, Asymptotes, Intercepts, Evaluating a function, Inverse of a function, Slope

of a line, Equation of a line given two points, Perpendicular and parallel lines, Exponential
function and transformations (shifting only), Parabola (equation and parts), Circle (equation and
parts), Ellipse (equation and parts), Limits, Continuity

B. PROBLEM SOLVING (40 points)

(a) Find the derivative (30 points)
(c) Find the relative extrema (10 points)

Practice Exercises

Use the derivative rules to find .

y  1 x4  1 x6 y  2x  1 y 5 x 3 3 x
4 3 6x  3
y  ( x 2  3)(2x 2  1)  2 
5
y  ln( x 5  x)
y   x  1 
 x2  1 
2x  1  2x  1 
4 1

y y  1 x3  4 x3 y  ln  e 
3x  2 3 3  2 x 
e 1
y  ax 2  bx  c y  (5x  7) 3 (3x 2  4) 7 y  (1  ln x ) 4
y  (3x 2  x  2)(4x  1) 2 y  5x
3 7 x

y  x  2x  3
x2  2 x  3
y  x  1  ln( 1  x  1 )
2
y  x  52 y  22  3
5 x 3x x
y  ( x 3  4) 4 ( x 2  2x) 6 (2 x  5) 4 y  ln( 5x  2)
3
y
(3x  1)5
√ y  x 5x  1

Identify the relative extrema of the following.

1. ( )
Answers: Relative maximum point: (-2,20)
Relative minimum point: (1,-7)

2. ( )
Answers: Relative maximum point: (3, 51)
Relative minimum point: (0, 24)