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NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

SPMS/DIVISION OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

2024/25 Semester 1 MH1100 Calculus I Tutorial 5, Week 6

Your tutor will aim to discuss: Problem 1, 4, 8, 11, and 14

Problem 1 Let a be a real number. Prove that


1 1
(a) lim = −∞ (b) lim = ∞.
x→a− (x − a)3 x→a+ (x − a)3

Problem 2 Use the definition of continuity and standard properties of limits to show that
3x + 2
f (x) =
x−3
is continuous at any point x = a of its domain.

Problem 3 Explain why some standard theorems about continuous functions imply that the
following function is continuous at every point of its domain
tan x
f (x) = √ .
4 − x2

Problem 4 Suppose that f and g are continuous functions such that g(2) = 5 and
lim [3f (x) + f (x)g(x)] = 20.
x→2

Find f (2).

Problem 5 Explain why the function is discontinuous at the given number a. Sketch the
graph of the function.
 x2 −x
1 x2 −1
if x ̸= 1
(a) f (x) = , a = −2; (b) f (x) = , a = 1;
x+2 1 if x = 1

 cos x if x < 0  2x2 −5x−3
x−3 if x ̸= 3
(c) f (x) = 0 if x = 0 , a = 0. (d) f (x) = , a = 3.
 2
1 − x if x > 0 6 if x = 3

Problem 6 Explain why the three functions below are discontinuous at the point x = 1.
 1  x2 −x
1 − x2 , x ≤ 1

x−1 , x ̸= 1 x2 −1
, x ̸= 1
(a) f (x) = (b) g(x) = 1 (c) h(x) =
0, x=0 x , x > 1 1, x=1
1
2

Problem 7 How would you ‘remove the discontinuity’ of f ? In other words, how would you
define f (2) in order to make f continuous at 2.
x2 + 2x − 8 x2 − 3x + 2
(a) f (x) = (b) f (x) = .
x−2 x2 + x − 6

Problem 8 Find values of a and b that make the following function continuous at every
point.  2
x −4


 x−2 , x<2


f (x) = ax2 + bx + 1, 2≤x<4




2x + a + b, x≥4

Problem 9 What value does a have to be so that the following function is continuous at
every point?  2x2 −3x−2
x−2 , x ̸= 2
f (x) =
a, x=2

Problem 10 Use the definition of continuity to show that f (x) = |x| is continuous at any
point x = a of its domain.

Problem 11 Prove that f is continuous at a if and only if


lim f (a + h) = f (a).
h→0

Problem 12 To prove that sine is continuous, we need to show that lim sin x = sin a for
x→a
every number a. By Problem 11 an equivalent statement is that
lim sin(a + h) = sin a.
h→0
Use the facts that lim cos x = 1 and lim sin x = 0 to show that this is true.
x→0 x→0

Problem 13
√
(a) Show that there exists a number c ∈ (0, 1) where 7 c = 1 − c.

(b) Does there exist a number which 7 greater than its cube?

Problem 14 Consider the function


f (x) = x3 + 10 sin x
Prove that there exists a real number c such that f (c) = 800.

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