Week 7: A Reciprocal Sum

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Week 7: A Reciprocal Sum

This is a bit of a longer problem – and could be expanded to start a nice investigation.  The problem is given below:

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Teacher notes:

Level of difficulty:  Only HL

Syllabus knowledge required:  This mixes a knowledge of graphs, ideas in formal proof and differentiation.

This is a good introduction to more formal mathematical techniques for finding upper/lower bounds for functions – and also in working with generalized functions.  It would probably require longer than a usual starter.  It would make a nice mini-investigation task and could be combined with using Desmos to draw some relevant graphs.

The pdf solution can be downloaded here.

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