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    The document is a math test for a calculus unit covering derivatives. It contains 9 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of derivative rules and applications of derivatives, including finding limits, slopes of tangents, average/instantaneous rates of change, and using derivatives to find critical points. It also contains 2 short answer thinking questions about when two functions have the same tangent slope and determining the value of a given a line tangent to a function.

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    The document is a math test for a calculus unit covering derivatives. It contains 9 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of derivative rules and applications of derivatives, including finding limits, slopes of tangents, average/instantaneous rates of change, and using derivatives to find critical points. It also contains 2 short answer thinking questions about when two functions have the same tangent slope and determining the value of a given a line tangent to a function.

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    Calculus Unit 1 Test

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    UNIT 1 TEST
    THE DERIVATIVE
    TH COMM
    /10
    An overall comrptlhication mark will be assigned for proper use of mathematical
    form, termipeiogy and conventions. DERIVATIVE RULES MAY BE USED
    EXCEPT WHERE LIMIT THEORY IS SPECIFIED.

    A: KNOWLEDGE/UNDERSTANDING
    1. Determine the value of each of the following limits if it exists. 78
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    2. a) Determine the slope of the tangent to f(x) - -x3 at x = -1

    b ) Determine the slope of the tangent to /(*) = — at x = 2

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    m-
    3. Determine — for each of the following. Simplify.
    dx 7"
    a) y =

    4. A subway train travels from one station to the next. Its distance, in
    kilometres, from the first station after t mins is s(t] = t2 -\t3.

    a) Find the average velocity of the train between t = 0 and t = 1.

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    b) Find the velocity of the train at 90 seconds. ^/

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    c) Show that the next station the train stops at is 2-tern, away.
    , •£.

    B: APPLICATION
    5. a) Use the Product rule to determine the rate of change of f(x) = x2 (3x -1)
    at x = 3 . ^> /3
    b) Show that you get the same result using the limit definition of the derivative.
    if 14

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    c) Show another method that could be used to verify the value of /'(3)

    /3

    6. Determine the points on the curve where the tangent line is


    horizontal.
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    7. Determine the derivative of each using the appropriate rules. Simplify final
    answers. / /8
    2 2 3 4 2
    a) /(*H4*-2) (x +3) y = ^x ~x , x>0

    re-
    8. Determine the equation of the tangent line to the curve y - at the

    point (-1.-2).

    9. An athletic-equipment supplier experiences weekly $costs of


    C(x) = |x3 + 40x + 700 in producing x baseball gloves per week.
    The marginal cost function is given by C"(x). Find the production level x at
    which the marginal cost is $76 per glove.

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    NAME :
    C: THINKING

    1 0. Do the functions y = ^ and y = x3 ever have the same tangent slope?


    If so when? Provide a supporting mathematical argument.

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    cte4- 0^

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    11. Determine the value of a, given that the line ax-4y + 21 = 0 is tangent to

    the graph of y--y at x = -2


    x
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    \i = (X.

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