Name ____________________________________
Hour _____ Date _________________________
Halloween Activity
Calculus
Work each problem. Then write the answers as an ordered pair (a, b) and follow
the instructions for graphing on the sheet provided.
Right Eye
1. a. What is the value at which there is b. At what value is there a
a vertical asymptote of removable discontinuity in
x 2 + 5x + 6 x 2 − 10x + 21
f (x ) = ? f (x ) = ?
x2 −9 x 2 + 2x − 15
5x + 1
2. a. f (x ) = 3x 3 − 5x 2 − 2x + 7 b. Find lim
x → x + 2
f (2) = ?
x
3. a. Evaluate: 7
128 b. Solve: =4
2
Plot the points from #1, 2, 3, and connect the points.
Left Eye
d 2y
4. a. What is the instantaneous rate of b. Find when x = 1
dx 2
x3 x2
change of y = 3x 2 + 10x when x = -2? y = + +x
3 2
dy
5. a. Find when x = -2 b. Find the average rate of change
dx
y = x2 +x +1 of y = x 3 + 1 on the interval [-1, -2].
3
6. a. What is the leading coefficient of b. Solve: x =6
2
y = −7x 3 + 3x 2 − x + 4 ?
Plot the points from #4, 5, 6, and connect the points.
Nose
7. a. What is the derivative of y 2 = x b. Evaluate: 4 cos2
4
1
where y = ?
2
8. a. Find the slope of x 2 + y 2 = 25 b. Evaluate: sin
2
8
at (3, -4) and multiply it by − .
3
9. a. What is the slope of a b. What is the slope of a line
horizontal line? perpendicular to x − 2y = 7 ?
Plot the points from #7, 8, 9, and connect the points.
Mouth
10. a. Find the derivative of x 2y + xy 2 = 6 b. What is the opposite of the
8
at (1, 2). Answer: y ' = slope of x 2y 2 = 9 at (-1, 3)?
?
( )
3
11. a. Find the derivative of y = 2x 2 − 1 b. Evaluate: − 3 216
when x = 1 and divide your answer
by -4.
3 1
+
12. a. Evaluate: 4 2 b. Solve: −5 − 3x = 5x + 51
5
8
13. a. Find the derivative of y = −x sin x b. Find the derivative of y = e −2x .
when x = ; round your answer to What is the coefficient of your
the nearest whole number. answer?
Plot the points from #10, 11, 12, 13, and connect the points in order.