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MTH 111

Review worksheet 3

My goal with this worksheet is to illustrate the various types of questions I might ask you to
do on the exam. If you are able to do all of the questions on this worksheet, you should feel
prepared for the exam.

The exam covers Sections 3.10, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, and 4.7.

Advice: Please work on this worksheet with other students. Try to finish the worksheet before
the exam. This can also give you a guide as to the type of questions you might need more
practice with.
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1. Use a linear approximation to estimate 3 26. Is this approximation an overestimate or an
underestimate?

2. A cylinder is produced with a height of exactly 2 m and with a radius that is 1 m with
an uncertainy of 0.01 m. (a) Use differentials to estimate the maximum possible error in the
volume of the cylinder. (b) Find the maximum relative error of measuring both the radius and
the volume.

3. Find the absolute maximum and minimum values of the following functions on the following
intervals.

(a) f (x) = (x2 − 4)3 , on [−2, 3].


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(b) f (t) = t − 3 t, on [−1, 4].

(c) f (θ) = 1 + cos2 θ, on [0, π/2].

(d) f (x) = ln(x2 + x + 1), on [−1, 1].

(e) f (x) = xex/2 , on [−3, 1].

(f) f (x) = x − 2 arctan x, on [0, 4].

4. For each of the functions below, find the critical points and indicate if each is a local min or
a local max.
x+1
(a) f (x) = .
x2 + 3
1
2
p
(b) g(x) = 3
x(2 − x).

(c) Let h be defined on (0, π/2) by the formula

h(x) = 3 csc(x) + 4 sec(x).

5. Let f (x) = ex − x.

(a) Explain why limx→∞ f (x) = ∞ and limx→−∞ f (x) = ∞.

(b) Show that there are real numbers a < 0 < b so that f (a) = 5 and f (b) = 5.

(c) Show that there are exactly two solutions to the equation f (x) = 5.
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6. A function f (x) is defined on (−∞, 3]. The plot below shows a graph of f ′ (x).

Determine the intervals on which f is increasing. What are the x-coordinates of points where
f has a local maximum or local minimum? On what intervals is f concave upward? On what
intervals is f concave downward? What are the x-coordinates of the inflection points of f ?

7. Evaluate the following limits:

(a) lim xex .


x→−∞
3

x3 + 4x2 − 8x + 8
(b) lim
x→−2 x+2
tan−1 (x) − x
(c) lim .
x→0 x3
1
(d) lim (cos(x)) x2 .
x→0

8. Let f (x) = (x − 1)3 (x + 1). Use the general behavior, limiting behavior, first derivative
information, and second derivative information to graph the function f (x). (Questions like this
can be kind of on the long side. On an exam, I might ask you to work out each step separately,
as an individual part of the problem.)

9. You have a piece of wire 10 m long is cut into two pieces. One piece is bent into a square
and the other is bent into an equilateral triangle. How should the wire be cut so that the total
enclosed area is a maximum? How should the wire be cut so that the total enclosed area √ is a
s2 3
minimum? (You may use that the area of an equilateral triangle with side length s is 4 .)

10. You have a right circular cone with height 2 and radius 1. What is the volume of the
largest cylinder that you can inscribe in the cone (where the base of the cylinder is put on the
base of the cone)? [ The volume of a cylinder with radius r and height h is πr2 h.]

11. Draw a graph of a function satisfying the given condition, or explain why such a function
cannot exist.

(a) A differentiable function f (x) with one critical point and no absolute maximum or minimum
value.

(b) A function f (x) differentiable on (a, b) and continuous on [a, b], for which there is a number
c in (a, b) with

f (b) − f (a)
f ′ (c) =
b−a

(c) A function that is twice-differentiable and concave up on the interval (a, b), and with three
zeros in (a, b) (i.e., three distinct x1 , x2 , x3 in the interval (a, b) with f (x1 ) = f (x2 ) = f (x3 ) = 0).

(d) A twice-differentiable function f on (−1, 1) for which f (0) = 1 and f ′′ (0) = 0, but for
which (0, 1) is not an inflection point (give an explicit example for this one, not just a graph;
or explain why this is impossible.)

(e) A continuous function on [a, b] with no absolute maximum.


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12. Suppose that f (x) and g(x) are differentiable functions with g ′ (x) ̸= 0 for all x. Assume
that
f ′ (x)
lim ′ = L.
x→a g (x)

f (x)
Does it follow that lim exists and equals L? Explain why if so, or give a counterexample
x→a g(x)
to show that this can be false.

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