Revision 2 solution
Question 1
(a) Let x be the ticket price in dollars and R(x) be the revenue in terms of x. Then the number of
people going to the swimming pool is 50 + (10 − x) ∗ 10 = 150 − 10x. So the revenue is given by
R(x) = x (150 − 10x).
(b) The swimming pool is not overcrowded if the number of people going to the swimming pool does
not exceed 100. That is,
150 − 10x ≤ 100 ⇐⇒ x ≥ 5.
Hence the minimum price is $5.
(c) Note that the revenue is a quadratic function in terms of x. Therefore, the revenue is maximized
when x = − 2a
b 150
= − 2×(−10) = 7.5 dollars.
(d) The question asks for a non-zero value of x such that R(x) = 0. Solving for x in this equation gives
x = 15 dollars.
Question 2
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Question 3
x -0.1 -0.01 -0.001 0.001 0.01 0.1
(a) sin x
x 0.99833 0.99998 0.99999 0.999999 0.99998 0.99833
Hence L = 1.
(b) We have
x tan x x sin x 2 x 2 sin x
2
lim = lim = lim × x × =2
x→0 1 − cos x x→0 2 sin2 ( x ) cos x x→0 cos x sin(
2 2) x
Question 4
(a) The set of values of a for which limx→a f (x) exists is R \ {4}.
(b)
The set of values of a for which limx→a f (x) exists is R \ {0, 1}.
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Question 5
1. The function f is continuous on each of the intervals (−∞, 2), (2, 3) and (3, ∞). So we only need to
check if f is continuous at the breakpoints x = 2 and x = 3.
We have
x2 − 4
lim− f (x) = lim− = lim− (x + 2) = 4,
x→2 x→2 x−2 x→2
lim f (x) = lim+ (ax2 − bx + 3) = 4a − 2b + 3,
x→2+ x→2
f (2) = (ax2 − bx + 3) x=2
= 4a − 2b + 3.
For f to be continuous at x = 2, we need
lim f (x) = lim+ f (x) = f (2) ⇐⇒ 4a − 2b + 3 = 4 ⇐⇒ 4a − 2b = 1. (1)
x→2− x→2
Similarly,
lim f (x) = lim− (ax2 − bx + 3) = 9a − 3b + 3,
x→3− x→3
lim f (x) = lim (2x − a + b) = 6 − a + b,
x→3+ x→3+
f (3) = (2x − a + b) x=3
= 6 − a + b.
For f to be continuous at x = 3, we need
lim f (x) = lim+ f (x) = f (3) ⇐⇒ 9a − 3b + 3 = 6 − a + b ⇐⇒ 10a − 4b = 3. (2)
x→3− x→3
Using (1) and (2) to solve for a and b, we obtain
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a=b= .
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2. Note that f is continuous on R \ {0}. So it remains to check that f is continuous at x = 0.
For this, we consider
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lim f (x) = lim x4 sin( ).
x→0 x→0 x
Observe that
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−x4 ≤ x4 sin( ) ≤ x4
x
and
lim −x4 = lim x4 = 0.
x→0 x→0
Therefore, it follows from the Squeeze Theorem that
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lim f (x) = lim x4 sin( ) = 0 = f (0).
x→0 x→0 x
This shows that f is continuous at x = 0. Hence f is continuous everywhere.
3. Direct calculations give
f (0) = 0 < 1000,
f (100π) = 10000π 2 > 1000.
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By the Intermediate Value Theorem, there must exist a number c such that f (c) = 1000.
4. We suppose the opposite, that is, f (3) ≤ 6. There are 2 cases:
Case 1: If f (3) = 6, then x = 3 is another solution to the equation f (x) = 6. This contradicts the
fact that x = 1 and x = 4 are the only solutions to f (x) = 6. So this is not possible.
Case 2: If f (3) < 6, then the Intermediate Value Theorem implies that there is another solution in
the interval (2, 3) to the equation f (x) = 6 since f (2) = 8 > 6. This is again a contradiction and hence is
also not possible.
It follows from the above arguments that f (3) > 6.
Question 6
