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Exercises

  1. Evaluate $ \pi^{\sqrt{2}}_{}$ to 30 decimal places.
  2. Input the following as a Maple function:

    f (x) = $\displaystyle {\frac{\sqrt{x}(-116x^3+8x^4+558x^2-891x)}{2x^5-29x^4+140x^3-225x^2}}$ .

    a)
    Write this in a simpler form (that is, factor and reduce it).
    b)
    Draw the graph of the function for x between 0 and 1). Adjust the vertical range so that some detail can be seen.
    c)
    Compute the area of the part of the curve that lies above the x-axis and between x = 0 and x = 5 (that is, integrate the function over the appropriate range of x values). Give your answer both in actual form and as a decimal approximation to about 10 places.
    d)
    What is the value of the integral if you remove the factor of $ \sqrt{x}$ from the numerator?
    e)
    Use the derivative of f (x) to determine for what real value x the function has a local maximum. Use an approximation to about 8 decimal places.
  3. Use the commands seq and ithprime to generate a list of the first 20 primes. Compute the sum of these 20 primes, and give its integer factors.
  4. Find the solutions of the system of equations {x2 - y2 = 4, x - 2y = 2}.
  5. Draw a graph showing both cosx and its fifth Taylor polynomial (that is, 1 - $ {\frac{1}{2!}}$x2 + $ {\frac{1}{4!}}$x4) for x between -4 and 4. How many terms do you seem to need to get good agreement in this range.

    Hint: use a variation of the command convert(taylor(cos(x),x,5),polynom) to make this work.

    Think of a suitable way to demonstrate that the approximation you have taken is good.


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Translated from LaTeX by Scott Sutherland
2002-08-29