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Summer Assignment AP Calculus AB - tcm6-98605

This document provides a summer assignment for AP Calculus students to complete without a calculator in preparation for the course. It contains 34 multi-part math problems assessing skills with simplifying expressions, solving equations, graphing functions, finding inverses of functions, and relationships in geometric figures. Students are instructed to show all work and bring the completed assignment to the first day of school, where it will be part of their first grading period grades.

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Summer Assignment AP Calculus AB - tcm6-98605

This document provides a summer assignment for AP Calculus students to complete without a calculator in preparation for the course. It contains 34 multi-part math problems assessing skills with simplifying expressions, solving equations, graphing functions, finding inverses of functions, and relationships in geometric figures. Students are instructed to show all work and bring the completed assignment to the first day of school, where it will be part of their first grading period grades.

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AP Calculus AB Summer Assignment (For Seniors)

Welcome AP Calculus Students:

Please work all problems without a calculator. You may use your notes, ask friends, or use the
Internet for help. All work has to be shown. These skills are important for your success in AP
Calculus AB. You will be assessed on these types of problems within the first two weeks of
schools as part of your first grading period grades.

Bring the finished packet with you on the first day of school.
ARE YOU READY FOR CALCULUS?
1. Simplify:
(a) (b)

(c) (d)

2. Rationalize the denominator:


(a) (b)
√ √ √

3. Write each of the following expressions in the form where , and are numbers:
(a)
( ) (b) √

( )
(c) (d)

(e) ( )√ (f) ( ) ( )

4. Solve for (do not use a calculator):


(a) ( ) (b)

(c) (d)
5. Simplify:
(a) ( ) ( ) (b)

(c)

6. Simplify:
(a) ( ) (b) ( )

(c) √

7. Solve the following equations for the indicated variables:


(a) , for (b) ( ), for

(c) , for positive (d) , for

(e) , for (f) , for

9. Factor completely:
(a) (b)

(c) (d)

10. Find all real solutions to:


(a) (b)

(c)
11. Solve for :
(a) ; (b) ;

(c) ;

12. Without using a calculator, evaluate the following:


(a) (b)

(c) ( ) (d) ( )

(e) √
(f)

(g) (h) ( )

14. Solve the equations:


(a) (b)

(c)

15. Find the remainders on division of:


(a) by (b) by

16. (a) The equation has a solution . Find all other solutions.

(b) Solve for , the equation . (All solutions are rational and between .)
18. Solve for :
(a) | | (b) | |

(c) | |

19. Determine the equations of the following line:


(a) the line through ( ) and ( )

(b) the line through ( ) and perpendicular to the line

(c) the line through ( ) and the midpoint of the line segment from ( ) and ( ).

20. (a) Find the point of intersection of the lines and

21. Find the equations of the following circles:


(a) the circle with center at ( ) that passes through the point ( )

(b) the circle that passes through the origin and has intercepts equal to 1 and 2 on the - and -axis,
respectively.

22. For the circle , find:


(a) the center and the radius;

(b) the equation of the tangent at ( ).


23. A circle is tangent to the -axis at and has one -intercept at
(a) Determine the other -intercept. (b) Deduce the equation of the circle.
25. (a) Find the domain of the function ( ) √ .
(b) Find the domain and range of the functions:
i) ( ) ii) ( )

| |
26. Let ( ) . Show that ( ) { . Find the domain and the range of ( ).
( ) ( )
27. Simplify , where
(a) ( ) (b) ( )

(b) ( )

28. The graph of the function ( ) is given as y

follows: 1

–2 –1 1 x

–1

Determine the graph of the functions:


(a) ( ) (b) ( )
y

–3 –2 –1 1 x

–1

(c) | ( )| (d) (| |)

29. Sketch the graphs of the functions:


(a) ( ) | | (b) ( ) | ( )|

31. Write as a single equation in and :


) { b) { √
c) {

32. Find the inverse of the functions:


(a) ( ) (b) ( )
(c) ( ) ,
33. A function ( ) has the graph to the right. y

Sketch the graph of the inverse function ( ).

34. Express in terms of the other variables in the picture.


(a) (b)

r
h h r

x t t

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