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CUCoM Individual Assignment Guidelines

This document provides instructions for an individual assignment for courses QM 114 and QMAC 100 at the Catholic University College of Mbeya Faculty of Business Administration. Students must complete 3 questions individually by the deadline of February 21, 2023 at 3:00PM. Any plagiarism will result in failure. The assignment must include a cover page with course and program information. Question 1 involves calculating sums of geometric progressions. Question 2 formulates an optimization problem for a company's plastic part production. Question 3 involves taking derivatives and integrals of various functions.

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CUCoM Individual Assignment Guidelines

This document provides instructions for an individual assignment for courses QM 114 and QMAC 100 at the Catholic University College of Mbeya Faculty of Business Administration. Students must complete 3 questions individually by the deadline of February 21, 2023 at 3:00PM. Any plagiarism will result in failure. The assignment must include a cover page with course and program information. Question 1 involves calculating sums of geometric progressions. Question 2 formulates an optimization problem for a company's plastic part production. Question 3 involves taking derivatives and integrals of various functions.

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CATHOLIC UNIVERISTY COLLEGE OF MBEYA (CUCoM)

FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION


QM 114 & QMAC 100: INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

Date: February 20, 2023


GROUP NUMBER:

Instructor’s Name:
INSTRUCTIONS

1. The deadline is Tuesday, February 21, 2023, at 15:00Pm.

2. This assignment should be done individually. It should be done by students who


missed the group assignment and those who did all tests and the group as-
signment but still they have incomplete coursework.

3. Any form of plagiarism detected will lead to a failure in this assignment.

4. Include Cover page, course name, course code, Program name, Group number, bibliogra-
phy or references

QUESTIONS

1. (a) Find the sum of the first 5 terms of the GP with the first term 3 and common ratio
1.5.
37
(b) The sum of the first 3 terms of the geometric series is 8
. The sum of the first six
terms is 3367
512
. Find the first term and common ratio.

2.) A company wants to optimize its production of plastic parts. The company manufactures
three different plastic parts using two different machines (cutting and shaping). The time
for making each plastic part in the two machines together with the available time in each
machines are given in the table below.
Parts Cutting Shaping
Part 1 2 3
Part 2 1 2
Part 3 2 2
Available time 120 150

The marketing department demands that at least 20 units of plastic part 1 should be
manufactured. The benefit for each part is 50, 40 and 60 US dollars.
(a) Formulate the problem of the company.
(b) Solve the problem formulated in 2(a) above by graphical method.

3.) Find the first derivative of the following functions by using the first principle of differen-
tiation;
1
(a.) f (x) = 3x2 − 4x + 10 (b.) f (x) = 3x2 + x

1
(b.) Integrate the following Z 6 √
i.) x4 x5 − 12
0

Z
3
ii.) x4 1 + x5

(c.)Find the stationary points of y = x5 −5x4 +5x3 −1 and classify the obtained stationary
points of the function and sketch the graph.

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