NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

SEMESTER 1, 2021/2022

MA1521 Calculus for Computing

Solutions to selected problems for Tutorial 5

Tutorial 5, Problem 1
Show that | cos x − 1| ≤ |x| for all x ∈ R. Hint: Apply the Mean Value
Theorem with f (x) = cos x.

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Tutorial 5, Problem 2
Let f (x) = 1/x and suppose b > a > 0. The Mean Value Theorem states
that there is a c ∈ (a, b) such that
f (b) − f (a)
f 0 (c) = .
b−a
Determine c explicitly in this case.
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Tutorial 5, Problem 3
Find values of a and b such that the function
ax + b
f (x) = 2
x −1
has a local extreme value of 1 at x = 3.
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Tutorial 5, Problem 4
Find the following limits using L’Hôpital’s Rule:
x+2 x
 
(a) lim ,
x→∞ x − 1

(Thomas’ Calculus (14th edition), p. 432, Problem 61)

2x − 3x
(b) lim .
x→∞ 3x + 4x

(Thomas’ Calculus (14th edition), p. 432, Problem 71)

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Tutorial 5, Problem 5
Complete the following problems using only the definition of Riemann inte-
grals:
(a) Show that
Z 1
sin xdx ≤ 1.
0

(b) Use sin x ≤ x for x ≥ 0 to show that

Z 1
1
sin x dx ≤ .
0 2

(Thomas’ Calculus (14th edition), p. 294, Problem 79(Modified))

Note: The actual value of the left hand side is cos 0 − cos 1 = 0.4596 · · · .
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Tutorial 5, Problem 6
Evaluate the following integrals:
Z π/3
(a) sin2 t dt
−π/3

(Thomas’ Calculus (14th edition), p. 305, Problem 14)

3
y 5 − 2y
Z
(b) dy.
−3 y3
(Thomas’ Calculus (14th edition), p. 305, Problem 22)
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Tutorial 5, Problem 7
Find the derivative of the following functions:
Z x2
(a) f (x) = x sin(t3 ) dt,
a
Z sin x
1 π
(b) g(x) = √ dx, |x| < .
0 1 − t2 2
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Tutorial 5, Problem 8
(a) Let a > 0 and f (x) = ax2 + 2bx + c. Show that f (x) has an absolute
minimum at x = −b/a and deduce that
f (x) ≥ 0 if and only if b2 − ac ≤ 0.

Note: The statement A if and only if B means that you need to establish
the following: If A holds then B holds AND if B holds then A holds.
(Thomas’ Calculus (14th edition), p. 265, Problem 31)

(b) Using the polynomial

f (x) = (a1 x + b1 )2 + (a2 x + b2 )2 + · · · + (an x + bn )2 ,
show that
(a1 b1 + a2 b2 + · · · + an bb )2 ≤ (a21 + a22 + · · · + a2n )(b21 + b22 + · · · + b2n ).

(Thomas’ Calculus (14th edition), p. 265, Problem 32 (Modified))