University of the Philippines, Manila

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics
MATHEMATICS 73: Fundamentals of Analysis I
First Laboratory Exam
January 24, 2014

I. Solve each of the following. Show all necessary solutions. (4 pts each)
1. A suspension bridge is built with its cable hanging between two vertical towers in the
form of a parabola. The towers are each 5 m high and are 200 m apart. If the middle
of the cable lies 15 m above the roadway, how high above the roadway is a point on the
cable that is 60 m from one tower?
2. Find the equation of an ellipse centered at the origin if the distance of one vertex to each
focus is 8 units and 18 units.
x2 y2
3. Given an ellipse with equation + = 1, find the equation of a hyperbola concentric
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with, has the same extremities, and whose vertices are the foci of the ellipse.

II. Evaluate the following limits. Show all necessary solutions.

 
Jx + 3K x+3
1. lim − + (6 pts)
x→−3 sgn(x + 3) |x + 3|
√
x − 2x2 − 2x − 3
2. lim √ (5 pts)
x→3 x2 + 7 − 4
sgn(6x − x2 − 8)
3. lim (6 pts)
x→4 x2 − 6x + 8
4x3 − 3x2 − 2x + 1
4. lim (4 pts)
x→−∞ x2 − x + 3


 sgn(x2 + 3x + 2), x ≤ −1




2x2 + 4x + 1, −1 < x ≤ 0






III. Given the following curve: f (x) =
s {
2+x
 1− , 0<x<3
2







 x2 − 5x + 6

, x≥3


x2 − 7x + 12

1. Give all the possible points of discontinuity of f . (3 pts)

2. Discuss the continuity of f at each possible point of discontinuity. If discontinuous at a
point, identify the type of discontinuity. (10 pts)
3. Using limits, determine the equations of the horizontal and vertical asymptotes of the
graph of f . (2 pts)
4. Sketch the graph of f . (8 pts)
**END OF EXAM**
TOTAL: 56/55