MATH102 December 2014
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- If you are stuck on a problem: Read the solution slowly and as soon as you feel you could finish the problem on your own, hide it and work on the problem. Come back later to the solution if you are stuck or if you want to check your work.
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[show]Solution 1
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As the tangent line to at is given by it is clear that and Since
Now recall* that so
Since the tangent line to at is given by the line is tangent to the graph of as desired.
* If you do not recall this, observe that by the chain rule, But and so
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[show]Solution 2
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Since the graph of , the inverse of , is simply the graph of reflected across the line a tangent line to the graph of can be found by simply reflecting a tangent line to the graph of across the same line. In other words, 'a tangent to the inverse is the inverse of a tangent'.
Algebraically, we simply interchange and in the equation thereby obtaining Solving for we arrive at
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