Exam 1

APPM 1360 - Summer 1997

Write your name and student number on the front of your blue book together with a grading table. Start each question on a new page. Make sure you SHOW ALL WORK. No points will be given for answers where no justification is given.

  1. (16 points)
    1. From the definitions and show that

    2. If and , find and . Be sure to give exact answers (no decimal approximations).
  2. (16 points) For both of the following, find .

  3. (24 points) Find the following limits

  4. (12 points) In a colony of bacteria grown under ideal conditions the rate of population growth at any time is proportional to the population itself. Provide a differential equation for the population at time t and write down its solution. Initially a particular colony has 1250 bacteria. If the population grows to 10 000 after 3 hours, when will it reach 40 000?
  5. (32 points) Evaluate the following integrals

Extra Credit: (10 points) Find all x satisfying