Suppose you park your car at a trailhead in a national park and begin a 2-hr hike to a lake at 7 A.M. on a Friday morning. On Sunday morning, you leave the lake at 7 A.M. and start the 2-hr hike back to your car. Assume the lake is 3 mi from your car. Let f(t) be your distance from the car t hours after 7 a.m. on Friday morning, and let g(t) be your distance from the car t hours after 7 a.m. on Sunday morning.


a. Evaluate f(0), f(2), g(0), and g(2).

Let g(x)= {1 if x≥0

−1 if x<0.

a. Write a formula for |g(x)|.

Suppose you park your car at a trailhead in a national park and begin a 2-hr hike to a lake at 7 A.M. on a Friday morning. On Sunday morning, you leave the lake at 7 A.M. and start the 2-hr hike back to your car. Assume the lake is 3 mi from your car. Let f(t) be your distance from the car t hours after 7 a.m. on Friday morning, and let g(t) be your distance from the car t hours after 7 a.m. on Sunday morning.

b. Let h(t)=f(t)−g(t). Find h(0) and h(2).

Suppose f(x) = {x^2 − 5x + 6 / x − 3 if x≠3

a if x=3.

Determine a value of the constant a for which lim x→3 f(x) = f(3).

Find the horizontal asymptotes of each function using limits at infinity.

f(x) = (2e^x + 3) / (e^x + 1)

Calculate the following limits using the factorization formula x^n−a^n=(x−a)(x^n−1+ax^n−2+a^2x^n−3+⋯+a^n−2x+a^n−1), where n is a positive integer and a is a real number.

lim x→1 x^6 − 1 / x − 1

Suppose g(x) = {x^2−5x if x≤−1

ax^3−7 if x>−1.

Determine a value of the constant a for which lim x→−1 g(x) exists and state the value of the limit, if possible.