Review Exercises for Chapter 4 in
Applied Calculus
Chapter 11 in
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus
Topic: Techniques of Differentiation

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Note Use proper graphing calculator format to input your answers (spaces are ignored). Here are some examples of correctly formatted expressions involving logarithms and exponentials.

Evaluate dy/dx for each of the following.

1. y=
x2(3x-1)
dy

dx
=
2. y=
x-1(2x+1)
dy

dx
=
3. y=
2x+1

2x-1
dy

dx
=
4. y=
3x+2

x2-1
dy

dx
=
5. y=
(x2-2)ex
dy

dx
=
6. y=
x2ln x
dy

dx
=
7. y=
ex - e-x

ex
dy

dx
=
8. y=
(2x2 - 2x)-4
dy

dx
=
9. y=
(ln x - ex)3
dy

dx
=
10. y=
ln (30x)
dy

dx
=
11. y=
x+1

(2x+1)2
dy

dx
=
12. y=
x+1

2x-1
3
 
 
dy

dx
=
13. y=
ln(x2-x)
dy

dx
=
14. y=
ex2-x - x
dy

dx
=
15. y=
2x - 1

ex
2
 
 
dy

dx
=


Question 16

Daily sales of neon red Duffin Whallop Deluxe golfball gift-packs follows the formula

where t is time in days since January 1, and s(t) represents the number of Duffin Whallop Deluxe gift-packs sold per day at time t.

(a) Obtain a formula for s'(t), and hence estimate how fast sales were dropping at the end of March (t = 90).

(b) How fast were sales dropping 10 days later? Approximately how many gift-packs were sold that day?


Question 17

If $5,000 is invested in a mutual fund whose value is growing at a rate of 15% per year (compounded once per year), how fast is the investment growing at the end of two years? (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)

Answer: The investment is increasing at a rate of $ per year.    


Question 18

The accompanying graph shows the number of transactions handled by Western Union for the years 1987-1994.*


* Source: Company Reports/The New York Times, September 24, 1994.

These data can be approximated by

where t is time in years since 1987, and Q(t) is the number of Western Union transactions (in millions) each year.


Question 19 The weekly cost of manufacturing x pairs of Gauss-Jordan Sneakers is

(a) What is the marginal cost at a sales level of 1000 pairs per week?

(b) What is the average cost per pair at a sales level of 1000 pairs per week?

(c) At the above sales level, the marginal cost is increasing
decreasing
at a rate of $ per pair.    

(d) At the above sales level, the marginal cost is greater than
Approximately equal to    
less than
the average cost.

(e) In general, if the marginal cost is increasing, and there is no fixed cost, then the marginal cost is greater than
Approximately equal to    
less than
the average cost.

We would welcome submissions of additional questions to add to this page. Submit questions with answers to:

Stefan Waner
(matszw@hofstra.edu)

Steven R. Costenoble
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Last Updated:March, 2003
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