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This document provides instructions and problems for Assignment 1 of the course AMA1100. Students are asked to show their name, student number, and subject code on submitted work. The assignment consists of 12 problems involving: (1) solving inequalities, (2) determining if functions are one-to-one, (3) identifying if functions are even or odd, (4) finding coefficients of expansions, (5) solving equations, (6) evaluating limits, (7) finding one-sided limits, (8) evaluating limits of piecewise functions, and (9) determining values to ensure a piecewise function is continuous. Students are to submit their work by the due date.

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Assignment 1

This document provides instructions and problems for Assignment 1 of the course AMA1100. Students are asked to show their name, student number, and subject code on submitted work. The assignment consists of 12 problems involving: (1) solving inequalities, (2) determining if functions are one-to-one, (3) identifying if functions are even or odd, (4) finding coefficients of expansions, (5) solving equations, (6) evaluating limits, (7) finding one-sided limits, (8) evaluating limits of piecewise functions, and (9) determining values to ensure a piecewise function is continuous. Students are to submit their work by the due date.

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AMA1100 2019/20 Semester 1 Assignment 1

Assignment 1 of AMA1100
Due date: 5pm, 23 October (Wednesday, Week 8), 2019

• Please use sheets of A4 size fastened with staples.

• Write the following information on the top right corner of the front page of your
assignment.

– Your name and student number


– The subject code: AMA1100

• Hand in your work to the assignment box at the entrance of TU Wing 7/F.

1. (12 marks) In the following questions, x is a real number. Find the solution sets
of the inequalities in the form of unions of intervals.

(i) (x + 3)/(x − 2) ≥ 0.
(ii) 2x − 1 ≤ |x + 4|.
(iii) |x − 2| < |x + 1|.

2. (8 marks) Determine whether the following functions are one-to-one or not. If so,
find f −1 (y).

(a) f (x) = x−1


x−2
, x ∈ R \ {2}.
(b) y = f (x) = x − 1/x, 0 < x < ∞.

3. (8 marks) Determine if the function f (x) is even or odd or neither.

(i) f (x) = 3x − 2/x.


(ii) f (x) = h ◦ g(x), where g(x) is even and h(x) is odd.

4. (4 marks) Find the coefficients of the the constant term in the expansions of
(2x − 1/x)8 .

5. (4 marks) Find the coefficient of x4 in the expansion of (2x − 1/x)10 .

6. (4 marks) Let n be a positive integer greater than 5. Find the coefficient of x3 y 2


of the trinomials (1 + 2x + 3y)n .

7. (6 marks) Solve the equation y = (2x + 2−x )/2 for x.

8. (12 marks) Solve the equations for x.

(i) 24x + 5 · 4x = 6.

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(ii) log10 (x − 1) + log10 (x − 3) = log10 (9 + x).


(iii) log3 (x − 5) = log9 (2x + 5).

9. (18 marks) Find the limits if they exist.

(a) lim tan(x4 + x − 1).


x→1
(b) lim ln(x3 + 2).
x→1
(c) lim cos−1 (x2 − x).
x→0
√
sin 6x
(d) lim .
x→0 sin x
tan−1 2x
(e) lim .
x→0 x
x3 − 1
(f ) lim .
x→1 sin(x − 1)

(g) lim [e−2x + 5 sin(2x + 1)].


x→−1

(h) lim [v 2 − 3v + 1], where v = sin x.


x→π/2

(i) lim [w + cos−1 w], where w = cos x.


x→0

10. (8 marks) Find if possible the one-sided limits lim− f (x) and lim+ f (x) for the
x→a x→a
following functions.
2x+3
(i) f (x) = x(x−1)
, a = 1.
(ii) f (x) = sin
x−1
x
, a = 1.
ex
(iii) f (x) = x4 , a = 0.
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(iv) f (x) = 2x + sin3 x , a = 0.

11. (8 marks) Let 


 2x2 − 18

 x + 3 , if x < −3,

f (x) = −12, if x = −3,



 2
x + 7x, if x > −3.
Find lim + f (x), lim − f (x), and lim f (x). Is f continuous at x = −3?
x→−3 x→−3 x→−3

12. (8 marks) Let 



 x − 1, if x < −2,

f (x) = ax + b, if − 2 ≤ x < 0,



x + 3, if x ≥ 0.
Find the values a and b so that the function f is continuous for all x.

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