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The document is a set of problems from the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament's Individual Round: Calculus Subject Test held on March 15, 2003. It includes various calculus-related questions such as expected distance in a circle, particle motion, area under curves, limits of sequences, minimum distances, and integrals. Each problem requires advanced mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills.

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Problems 2

The document is a set of problems from the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament's Individual Round: Calculus Subject Test held on March 15, 2003. It includes various calculus-related questions such as expected distance in a circle, particle motion, area under curves, limits of sequences, minimum distances, and integrals. Each problem requires advanced mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills.

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Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament

March 15, 2003

Individual Round: Calculus Subject Test

1. A point is chosen randomly with uniform distribution in the interior of a circle of radius
1. What is its expected distance from the center of the circle?

2. A particle moves along the x-axis in such a way that its velocity at position x is given
by the formula v(x) = 2 + sin x. What is its acceleration at x = π6 ?

3. What is the area of the region bounded by the curves y = x2003 and y = x1/2003 and
lying above the x-axis?

4. The sequence of real numbers x1 , x2 , x3 , . . . satisfies limn→∞ (x2n + x2n+1 ) = 315 and
limn→∞ (x2n + x2n−1 ) = 2003. Evaluate limn→∞ (x2n /x2n+1 ).

5. Find the minimum distance from the point (0, 5/2) to the graph of y = x4 /8.

6. For n an integer, evaluate


µ ¶
1 1 1
lim √ + √ + · · · + q .
n→∞ n2 − 02 n2 − 12 n2 − (n − 1)2

7. For what value of a > 1 is Z a2


1 x−1
log dx
a x 32
minimum?

8. A right circular cone with a height of 12 inches and a base radius of 3 inches is filled
with water and held with its vertex pointing downward. Water flows out through a
hole at the vertex at a rate in cubic inches per second numerically equal to the height
of the water in the cone. (For example, when the height of the water in the cone is 4
inches, water flows out at a rate of 4 cubic inches per second.) Determine how many
seconds it will take for all of the water to flow out of the cone.

9. Two differentiable real functions f (x) and g(x) satisfy

f 0 (x)
= ef (x)−g(x)
g 0 (x)

for all x, and f (0) = g(2003) = 1. Find the largest constant c such that f (2003) > c
for all such functions f, g.

10. Evaluate Z ∞
1 − x2
dx.
−∞ 1 + x4

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