• Congratulations to the Class of 2024 on your results!
    Let us know how you went here
    Got a question about your uni preferences? Ask us here

Please help with the fff questions (1 Viewer)

kpad5991

Member
Joined
Dec 29, 2016
Messages
238
Gender
Male
HSC
2018
1) d/dx loge 2x/x+1

2) if l=w=x and h=y of a rectangular prism I worked out the volume to be V=(125x-x^3)/2. Find the dimensions for the maximum volume.

3) for the curve y=x^2-x-2.
a) Explain why the area bounded by the curve, the x axis and the lines x=1 and x=3 is not given by the integral with bounds 3 and 1 (x^2-x-2)dx.
b) Find the area bounded by the curve the x axis and the lines x=1 and x=3.

4) Find the point on the curve y= 3 +4x-x^2 where the tangent is perpendicular to y=x/3+1
 

kpad5991

Member
Joined
Dec 29, 2016
Messages
238
Gender
Male
HSC
2018
For question two the shape is a rectangular prism what will the height be if h= 125/2x-x/2?

I still don’t get Q3. The question says you can not use 1 and 3 as the bounds to calculate the area and yet you did
 
Last edited:

HeroWise

Active Member
Joined
Dec 8, 2017
Messages
353
Gender
Male
HSC
2020
OOHHH
Ok see in q3, if u see its graph, a section is below the x axis, thus getting subtracted from the portion which is above the x axis:


A1 and A2 are the two areas we are tryna find but A1 is belo the axis, it WILL get subtracted when we integrate from 3 to 1
If u notice just after the integration step I have


(-3/2)-(1/3-1/2-2)

The (-3/2) is later absolute valued to give (3/2), i just removed the negative sign, if it were to stay it would subtract the original area and anyway u cant have neg area
Yeah sure ill do em rn
 

fan96

617 pages
Joined
May 25, 2017
Messages
543
Location
NSW
Gender
Male
HSC
2018
Uni Grad
2024
b)

i) use the arc length formula to find and .

ii) use the area formula to find the areas of the large sector and the small sector .

For d), be careful when notating angles using one letter () - it's technically ambiguous since that could be referring to any of two angles.

iii) and are corresponding sides of the two similar triangles. So to find their ratio you only need to find the ratio of any other two corresponding sides of the triangles, e.g. and .
 

HeroWise

Active Member
Joined
Dec 8, 2017
Messages
353
Gender
Male
HSC
2020
for first step in the formula, i tend to derive it and not memorise it cos idk i cant get to stick it in my head, like l=rtheta, htats simple but my assurance increases if I derive it haha
 

kpad5991

Member
Joined
Dec 29, 2016
Messages
238
Gender
Male
HSC
2018
OOHHH
Ok see in q3, if u see its graph, a section is below the x axis, thus getting subtracted from the portion which is above the x axis:


A1 and A2 are the two areas we are tryna find but A1 is belo the axis, it WILL get subtracted when we integrate from 3 to 1
If u notice just after the integration step I have


(-3/2)-(1/3-1/2-2)

The (-3/2) is later absolute valued to give (3/2), i just removed the negative sign, if it were to stay it would subtract the original area and anyway u cant have neg area
Yeah sure ill do em rn
So why is this wrong??? Why can’t you work out the area seperately and add them???

https://imgur.com/gallery/P2Kou
 

fan96

617 pages
Joined
May 25, 2017
Messages
543
Location
NSW
Gender
Male
HSC
2018
Uni Grad
2024
You can, but writing



is a little questionable, and some markers may penalise you for this.

Alternatively you could take the absolute value



or even swap the bounds of integration

 

kpad5991

Member
Joined
Dec 29, 2016
Messages
238
Gender
Male
HSC
2018
But then our areas are different? Cause wouldn’t you have to take both areas A1 and A2 get the absolute values and add them. For A1 I get 7/6 and A2= 11/6 so the total is 3 u^2. Your area was a fraction
 

fan96

617 pages
Joined
May 25, 2017
Messages
543
Location
NSW
Gender
Male
HSC
2018
Uni Grad
2024
My area was a fraction because we still need to add the other area, the one under the curve from 3 to 2.

Technically you only need to take the absolute value of

since the other part is known to be positive.

 

HeroWise

Active Member
Joined
Dec 8, 2017
Messages
353
Gender
Male
HSC
2020
ofc u can integrate them separately, thats what you are meant to do, BUt if u do it in a step you need to abs the value which gives -ve
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 1)

Top