course Mth 271 ????????????x?assignment #005
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12:57:45 `q001. The graph of a certain function is a smooth curve passing through the points (3, 5), (7, 17) and (10, 29). Between which two points do you think the graph is steeper, on the average? Why do we say 'on the average'?
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RESPONSE --> The graph would be steeper between (10, 29) because of the distance between these two points. confidence assessment: 1
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13:00:21 Slope = rise / run. Between points (7, 17) and (10, 29) we get rise / run = (29 - 17) / (10 - 7) =12 / 3 = 4. The slope between points (3, 5) and (7, 17) is 3 / 1. (17 - 5) / (7 -3) = 12 / 4 = 3. The segment with slope 4 is the steeper. The graph being a smooth curve, slopes may vary from point to point. The slope obtained over the interval is a specific type of average of the slopes of all points between the endpoints.
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RESPONSE --> I understand where I messed up now, I thought the question asked for one point, and not 2 points, but now, looking at the slope forms, and solving those, I can see that between points (7, 17) and (10, 29) is the steeper slope. I also understand the average concept now. It is the average because the steeper of these two points is an average of all three between the endpoints. self critique assessment: 2
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13:02:51 2. Answer without using a calculator: As x takes the values 2.1, 2.01, 2.001 and 2.0001, what values are taken by the expression 1 / (x - 2)? 1. As the process continues, with x getting closer and closer to 2, what happens to the values of 1 / (x-2)? 2. Will the value ever exceed a billion? Will it ever exceed one trillion billions? 3. Will it ever exceed the number of particles in the known universe? 4. Is there any number it will never exceed? 5. What does the graph of y = 1 / (x-2) look like in the vicinity of x = 2?
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RESPONSE --> 1. The values of 1 / (x-2) will very slowly get larger, but at a very slow pace. 2. It will eventually, but would take a very long time. 3. Very very slowly, yes. 4. No, it will continue towards infinity 5. A straight line, on the y axis self critique assessment: 1
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13:05:53 For x = 2.1, 2.01, 2.001, 2.0001 we see that x -2 = .1, .01, .001, .0001. Thus 1/(x -2) takes respective values 10, 100, 1000, 10,000. It is important to note that x is changing by smaller and smaller increments as it approaches 2, while the value of the function is changing by greater and greater amounts. As x gets closer in closer to 2, it will reach the values 2.00001, 2.0000001, etc.. Since we can put as many zeros as we want in .000...001 the reciprocal 100...000 can be as large as we desire. Given any number, we can exceed it. Note that the function is simply not defined for x = 2. We cannot divide 1 by 0 (try counting to 1 by 0's..You never get anywhere. It can't be done. You can count to 1 by .1's--.1, .2, .3, ..., .9, 1. You get 10. You can do similar thing for .01, .001, etc., but you just can't do it for 0). As x approaches 2 the graph approaches the vertical line x = 2; the graph itself is never vertical. That is, the graph will have a vertical asymptote at the line x = 2. As x approaches 2, therefore, 1 / (x-2) will exceed all bounds. Note that if x approaches 2 through the values 1.9, 1.99, ..., the function gives us -10, -100, etc.. So we can see that on one side of x = 2 the graph will approach +infinity, on the other it will be negative and approach -infinity.
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RESPONSE --> I see my mistake now, it was only in the fact that the numbers would getlarger slowly,they will get larger faster. I see not that we cannot divide by zero. So instead of a straight line, the function simply does not work because of this. self critique assessment: 2
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13:24:20 `q003. One straight line segment connects the points (3,5) and (7,9) while another connects the points (10,2) and (50,4). From each of the four points a line segment is drawn directly down to the x axis, forming two trapezoids. Which trapezoid has the greater area? Try to justify your answer with something more precise than, for example, 'from a sketch I can see that this one is much bigger so it must have the greater area'.
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RESPONSE --> Area =(b1 + b2/2) * h The trapezoid containing point 10, 2 and 50, 4 has the greater area. A= (40 + 40 / 2) * 4 = 160 confidence assessment: 1
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13:28:03 Your sketch should show that while the first trapezoid averages a little more than double the altitude of the second, the second is clearly much more than twice as wide and hence has the greater area. To justify this a little more precisely, the first trapezoid, which runs from x = 3 to x = 7, is 4 units wide while the second runs from x = 10 and to x = 50 and hence has a width of 40 units. The altitudes of the first trapezoid are 5 and 9,so the average altitude of the first is 7. The average altitude of the second is the average of the altitudes 2 and 4, or 3. So the first trapezoid is over twice as high, on the average, as the first. However the second is 10 times as wide, so the second trapezoid must have the greater area. This is all the reasoning we need to answer the question. We could of course multiply average altitude by width for each trapezoid, obtaining area 7 * 4 = 28 for the first and 3 * 40 = 120 for the second. However if all we need to know is which trapezoid has a greater area, we need not bother with this step.
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RESPONSE --> I understand this reasoning as well. I simply entered into the area formula. But now I can see how we can arrive at a better answer. The reasoning is that even though the first trapezoid is over twice as high as the second, the second is 10 times wider, therefore it must have the greater area. self critique assessment: 2
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13:30:49 `q004. If f(x) = x^2 (meaning 'x raised to the power 2') then which is steeper, the line segment connecting the x = 2 and x = 5 points on the graph of f(x), or the line segment connecting the x = -1 and x = 7 points on the same graph? Explain the basisof your reasoning.
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RESPONSE --> The point x=-1 and x=7 would be the steeper line. When solved for f(x), the points become x=1 and x=49. The other points X=2 and x=5 solve as x=4 and x=25. The steepness between 1 and 49 is much steeper than 4 and 25. confidence assessment: 2
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13:33:08 The line segment connecting x = 2 and the x = 5 points is steeper: Since f(x) = x^2, x = 2 gives y = 4 and x = 5 gives y = 25. The slope between the points is rise / run = (25 - 4) / (5 - 2) = 21 / 3 = 7. The line segment connecting the x = -1 point (-1,1) and the x = 7 point (7,49) has a slope of (49 - 1) / (7 - -1) = 48 / 8 = 6. The slope of the first segment is greater.
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RESPONSE --> I see my mistake now. I didn't enter y in the answer and was off by not using the slope formula. When entering these two sets of points in the equation I clearly see that the first set of points has a steeper slope than the second. self critique assessment: 2
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13:36:13 `q005. Suppose that every week of the current millenium you go to the jewler and obtain a certain number of grams of pure gold, which you then place in an old sock and bury in your backyard. Assume that buried gold lasts a long, long time ( this is so), that the the gold remains undisturbed (maybe, maybe not so), that no other source adds gold to your backyard (probably so), and that there was no gold in your yard before.. 1. If you construct a graph of y = the number of grams of gold in your backyard vs. t = the number of weeks since Jan. 1, 2000, with the y axis pointing up and the t axis pointing to the right, will the points on your graph lie on a level straight line, a rising straight line, a falling straight line, a line which rises faster and faster, a line which rises but more and more slowly, a line which falls faster and faster, or a line which falls but more and more slowly? 2. Answer the same question assuming that every week you bury 1 more gram than you did the previous week. {}3. Answer the same question assuming that every week you bury half the amount you did the previous week.
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RESPONSE --> 1. A line that rises. This is because as the weeks pass, you are adding more and more gold. A certain amount of gold would lead to the straight line rising. 2.This would change into line that rises faster and faster because each week would lend to more and more gold being bought. 3. This would change the line into a descending line that falls faster and faster because as you decrease by half, the amount decreases drastically. confidence assessment: 2
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13:37:15 1. If it's the same amount each week it would be a straight line. 2. Buying gold every week, the amount of gold will always increase. Since you buy more each week the rate of increase will keep increasing. So the graph will increase, and at an increasing rate. 3. Buying gold every week, the amount of gold won't ever decrease. Since you buy less each week the rate of increase will just keep falling. So the graph will increase, but at a decreasing rate. This graph will in fact approach a horizontal asymptote, since we have a geometric progression which implies an exponential function.
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RESPONSE --> 3. I see now that the line would increase, but at a decreasing rate because we are still adding gold to the yard, just smaller and smaller amounts. self critique assessment: 2
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13:38:54 `q006. Suppose that every week you go to the jewler and obtain a certain number of grams of pure gold, which you then place in an old sock and bury in your backyard. Assume that buried gold lasts a long, long time, that the the gold remains undisturbed, and that no other source adds gold to your backyard. 1. If you graph the rate at which gold is accumulating from week to week vs. tne number of weeks since Jan 1, 2000, will the points on your graph lie on a level straight line, a rising straight line, a falling straight line, a line which rises faster and faster, a line which rises but more and more slowly, a line which falls faster and faster, or a line which falls but more and more slowly? 2. Answer the same question assuming that every week you bury 1 more gram than you did the previous week. 3. Answer the same question assuming that every week you bury half the amount you did the previous week.
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RESPONSE --> 1. The points lie on a rising straight line. 2. The points will lie on a rising line, because you are adding more gold from week to week. 3. The points will lie on a rising line, but it will change to a decreasing rate because you are adding less to the pile. confidence assessment: 3
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13:39:56 This set of questions is different from the preceding set. This question now asks about a graph of rate vs. time, whereas the last was about the graph of quantity vs. time. Question 1: This question concerns the graph of the rate at which gold accumulates, which in this case, since you buy the same amount eact week, is constant. The graph would be a horizontal straight line. Question 2: Each week you buy one more gram than the week before, so the rate goes up each week by 1 gram per week. You thus get a risingstraight line because the increase in the rate is the same from one week to the next. Question 3. Since half the previous amount will be half of a declining amount, the rate will decrease while remaining positive, so the graph remains positive as it decreases more and more slowly. The rate approaches but never reaches zero.
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RESPONSE --> 2. I see now that adding a constant 1 gram a week, the line would still be straight and increase at the same rate each time. self critique assessment: 2
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13:46:31 ``q007. If the depth of water in a container is given, in centimeters, by 100 - 2 t + .01 t^2, where t is clock time in seconds, then what are the depths at clock times t = 30, t = 40 and t = 60? On the average is depth changing more rapidly during the first time interval or the second?
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RESPONSE --> Depth at t=30 is 49, t=40 is 36 and t=60 is 16 t=30 100-2*(30)+.01*(60)^2 100-60+.01*(900) 100-60+9 49 t=40 100-2*(40)+.01(40)^2 100-80+.01(1600) 20+16 36 t=60 100-2*(60)+.01*(60)^2 100-120+.01*(3600) -20+36 16 The depth is changing more rapidly between the second interval because it drops more drastically than in the first one. self critique assessment: 2
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13:47:01 At t = 30 we get depth = 100 - 2 t + .01 t^2 = 100 - 2 * 30 + .01 * 30^2 = 49. At t = 40 we get depth = 100 - 2 t + .01 t^2 = 100 - 2 * 40 + .01 * 40^2 = 36. At t = 60 we get depth = 100 - 2 t + .01 t^2 = 100 - 2 * 60 + .01 * 60^2 = 16. 49 cm - 36 cm = 13 cm change in 10 sec or 1.3 cm/s on the average. 36 cm - 16 cm = 20 cm change in 20 sec or 1.0 cm/s on the average.
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RESPONSE --> self critique assessment: 3
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13:55:31 `q008. If the rate at which water descends in a container is given, in cm/s, by 10 - .1 t, where t is clock time in seconds, then at what rate is water descending when t = 10, and at what rate is it descending when t = 20? How much would you therefore expect the water level to change during this 10-second interval?
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RESPONSE --> t=10 10-.1*(10 10-1 9 t=20 10-.1*(20) 10-2 8 I would expect the water level to change by 1 cm in this interval (9-8=1) confidence assessment: 2
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13:57:03 At t = 10 sec the rate function gives us 10 - .1 * 10 = 10 - 1 = 9, meaning a rate of 9 cm / sec. At t = 20 sec the rate function gives us 10 - .1 * 20 = 10 - 2 = 8, meaning a rate of 8 cm / sec. The rate never goes below 8 cm/s, so in 10 sec the change wouldn't be less than 80 cm. The rate never goes above 9 cm/s, so in 10 sec the change wouldn't be greater than 90 cm. Any answer that isn't between 80 cm and 90 cm doesn't fit the given conditions.. The rate change is a linear function of t. Therefore the average rate is the average of the two rates, or 9.5 cm/s. The average of the rates is 8.5 cm/sec. In 10 sec that would imply a change of 85 cm.
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RESPONSE --> I see now that the rate doesn't fall from 8 cm/s and exceed 9cm/s. So the average rate would be 9+8/2=8.5 self critique assessment: 2
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