Math 175

Week 7 Written Homework

Spring 2016

Instructions:
All problems are due at the beginning of class on Monday 2/29.
Quality of presentation is a significant part of your grade. This includes:
Neatness. Sloppy work will score poorly, if it gets graded at all.
Organization. Your work must be easy to find and easy to follow.
Communication. Your work must show how you reached your answer, and you must
make correct use of mathematical notation.
Pay attention to specific answer formatting requirements in each individual problem.
Your instructor may have additional requirements.
Problems 1, 2, and the Bonus are short answer. No work required. No partial credit expected.
Problems:
1. (5 pts.) Arrange these series into a ranked order, based on tail thickness or speed to infinity.
X  3 n
X1
X  1 n
X 1
X
(0.999)n
2
2
n
ln n
Use or notation. Your answer should look like the hierarchies shown here or here.

2. (5 pts.) After you rank them, indicate clearly which series is in which of these three categories:
Convergent.

Divergent, but has a tail.

1

Has no tail.

3. (10 pts.) Find the quadratic Taylor polynomial for f (x) =

any methods, but show all your work.

4 + x2 , centered at x = 0. Use

Note: If your method is Wolfram Alpha, or something like it, then you wont be able to
show any work, and you wont end up with any points.

Bonus : Create a convergent series whose tail thickness is between the series shown below.
X n
X n

1+n
1 + n2
Create a divergent series whose tail thickness is between the series shown below.
X n
X n

1+n
1 + n2
2