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This document contains a mathematics assignment for a social sciences course with 20 questions covering topics like sets, functions, polynomials, and relations. Some questions involve simplifying and solving sets, functions, inequalities, and polynomials. Other questions ask students to determine properties of relations like whether they are functions or one-to-one correspondences. The last question involves finding the composition of various functions.

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Math1012 - Exercises - On - Functions

This document contains a mathematics assignment for a social sciences course with 20 questions covering topics like sets, functions, polynomials, and relations. Some questions involve simplifying and solving sets, functions, inequalities, and polynomials. Other questions ask students to determine properties of relations like whether they are functions or one-to-one correspondences. The last question involves finding the composition of various functions.

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Addis Ababa University

College of Natural and Computational Sciences


Department of Mathematics
Math 1012: Mathematics for Social Sciences (2021/22 Academic Year Semester II)
Assignment II.

1. Write the following sets as an interval or union of intervals. In each case x ∈ R.

(a) A = {x ∈ R|x 6= 5 ∧ x 6= 8}. (b) B = {x ∈ R|x2 (x3 − 1) 6= 0}.

2. Simplify each of the following sets and give the final result as an interval or union of intervals

(a) ([−3, 2] ∩ (0, 5))0 . ¯ ∪ (0.3̄, 11).


(b) ((−3, 5.6] ∩ (−5, 2.43))
a c a+c a
3. If b
< d
with b > 0, d > 0, prove that b+d
lies between the two fractions b
and dc .

4. Let A and B be any two sets with n(A) = 3 and n(B) = 5. How many different relations are
there from A to B?

5. A truck carries a load of 50 boxes; some are 20 kg boxes and the rest are 25 kg boxes. If the total
weight of all boxes is 1175 kg, how many of each type are there?

6. The cost of producing pens with the company logo printed on them consists of a onetime setup
fee of Birr 1000 plus Birr 20 for each pen produced. Determine the number of pens produced with
a cost of Birr 5,000 pens.

7. Solve each of the following equations.

(a) 5(3 − x) − 2(5 − 2x) = 3 (c) 2x+1


4
= 3x−1
7
(e) 1
x−5
+ 3
x+2
=4
2
(b) −4x + 2 − 2x = 1 (d) 3x − 6x + 5 = 0

8. Solve each of the following inequalities.


1+2x
(a) 3
≤9 (b) x2 − 3x − 3 < 0 (c) −x2 + 4 < 0

9. When 6 is subtracted from twice the sum of a number and 8 the result is 5. Find the number.

10. Sami and Alex play in the same soccer team. Last Saturday both scored goals and Alex scored 3
more goals than Sam, but together they scored less than 9 goals. How many goals did each score?

11. Let A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {4, 5, 6}. Determine if each of the following is a relation from A to B.

(a) R1 = {(1, 4); (2, 5); (6, 3)} (c) R3 = {(6, 3), (5, 2); (4, 1)}
(b) R2 = {(2, 5); (3, 6)} (d) R4 = {(1, 5); (1, 6); (2, 4); (2, 6), (3, 4), (3, 5)}

12. Let A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} and B = {1, 5, 8, 9, 24, 25}, List the elements of each of the following
relations from A into B.

(a) R1 = {(x, y) : x is a factor of y}.


(b) R2 = {(x, y) : x is a square of y}.
(c) R3 = {(x, y) : x is 6 less than y}.
(d) Find the domain and range of the relations R1 , R2 and R3 .

13. Determine whether the following relations are functions or not.

1
(a) R1 = {(−3, 27), (−2, 8), (−1, 1), (0, 0), (1, 1), (2, 8), (3, 27)}
(b) R3 = {(−3, −6), (−2, −4), (−1, −2), (0, 0), (1, 2), (2, 4), (3, 6)}
(c) R5 = {(1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 1), (4, 3)}.
(d) R7 = {(x, y)|x, y ∈ R ∧ x − y = 4}.
(e) R9 = {(x, y) : x is a first year student in AAU and y is the age of x}.

14. Let A = {a, b, c, d}, B = {a, c, d, e}. Let f : A −→ R and g : B −→ R be functions given by
f = {(a, 1), (b, 2), (c, 2), (d, 4)} and g = {(a, 0), (c, 4), (d, 8), (e, 0)}. Determine the domain and
find each of the following:
(a) f + g (b) 2f − 3g (c) f.g (d) f /g.

15. Identify each one of the following functions as one-to-one,onto and 1-1 correspondence.

(a) f : R −→ R+ given by f (x) = x2 .


√
(b) f : [2, ∞) −→ R defined by f (x) = x − 2.
x+1
(c) f : R \ {0} → R \ {1} defined by f (x) = x
.

16. Determine the domain and the inverse of each of the following functions.
√ √
(a) f (x) = 4 − x (b) f (x) = (2x + 8)3 (c) f (x) = 7x − 6 (d) f (x) = 3 x + 1

17. Find the quotient and remainder when the polynomial p(x) is divided by the polynomial d(x).

(a) p(x) = 6x3 − 16x2 + 17x − 6; d(x) = 3x − 2.


(b) p(x) = x4 + 3x2 + 1; d(x) = x2 − 2x + 3.

18. Find the remainder when p(x) is divided by d(x) and determine if d(x) is a factor of p(x) for each
of the following..

(a) p(x) = x5 − 2x2 − 3, d(x) = x + 1.


(b) p(x) = x3 + 8, d(x) = x + 2

19. Find all the zeros of each of the following polynomial functions.

(a) x3 − 4x2 − 7x + 10 (b) x3 − 8x − 3 (c) x5 − 13x3 + 13x

20. For each of the following find g ◦ f and f ◦ g.


3x 1
(a) f (x) = 2x + 1, g(x) = x2 (b) f (x) = 1−x
, g(x) = 2x+5

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