| MATH 111 - Final Exam | Name: __________________________________ |
| Spring 1996 | Student I.D.# _____________________________ |
General test instructions: Show all your work on this test paper! If you solve a problem algebraically show all your steps. If you solve a problem by graphing on your calculator, show a sketch of the graph, with the solution labeled. Where appropriate, round answer to 3 decimal places.
Solve the following equations.
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Solve the following inequalities, and sketch the solutions on the number.
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5. Solve: ![]()
6. Solve: ![]()
7. Find all points of intersection
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8. Solve
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9. Jim and Juan are going to ride their motorcycles from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Jim leaves at 8:00 am but Juan can't leave until 8:30 am. If Jim drives at 50 mph and Juan at 55 mph, at what time will Juan catch up with Jim?
10. Let x be the amount (in hundreds of dollars) a company spends on advertising, and let P be the profit, where
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a) What expenditures for advertising gives the maximum profit?
b) What is this maximum profit?
11. If $100 is deposited in a savings account at 6% interest compounded monthly, how much will be in the account after 4 years?
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12. Evaluate log3 12 (Show your work.)
13. Simplify:
Write your answer in
standard form, for a complex number.
14. Radioactive iodine is a by-product of some types of nuclear reactors. Its half-life is 60 days. Suppose a contained nuclear accident occurs and gives off an initial amount C of radioactive iodine.
a) Using the exponential model
, find the
time find the value of k (to 3 decimal places).
b) Using your model from part (a), find the time required to decay to 20% of the original amount.
15. Find an equation of the line that passes through the points (4,-2) and (-3,5).
16. Given
and
, find
(Simplify the composite function)
17. Given the function,
what is its
a) domain?
b) range?
18. Given ![]()
a) find the inverse function
.
b) Graph
and ![]()
19. Find all the zeros of this polynomial. ![]()
20. Given this sketch of a graph:

a) Is it a 3rd degree or 4th degree equation? _________________
b) Is the leading coefficient positive or negative? __________________
21. Graph the function 
22. Graph
and
.
23. f (x) is sketched on the axes below. Translate it to sketch a graph of f(x-3) + 1.

24. Two biology students have measured the average length of blades of grass as a function of time since sprouting. They want to find a function that will describe the growth of the grass.
|
Time |
2 |
4 |
7 |
12 |
15 |
17 |
20 |
|
Length |
1.9 |
3.4 |
4.2 |
5.7 |
6.0 |
6.5 |
6.8 |
a) Plot these points on the axes below. 
b) Use your graphing calculator to find the least square regression line for the data. Write your equation and regression coefficient here.
c) Use your graphing calculator to fit a logarithmic function y = a + b ln x to the data. Write your equation and regression coefficient here.
d) Which is a better model of the data? __________________ Explain why.
e) Using the equation that was the best fit for the data, predict the lengths of 10- and 25-day old blades of grass.