Continuity and Differentiability

Choose the most appropriate option (a, b, c or d).

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f ' 
Q 1. Let f(x) = log |x – 1|, x  1. The value of  2 

(a) is -2 (b) is 2 (c) does not exist (d) none of these

  dy 
y  tan   x  x
 4 
Q 2. Let . Then dx at 4

(a) is 1 (b) is -1 (c) does not exist (d) none of these

dy
Q 3. Let y = |x| + |x – 2|. Then dx at x = 2

(a) is 2 (b) is 0 (c) does not exist (d) none of these

Q 4. Let f(x) =  +  |x| + |x|2, where , ,  are real constants. The f'(0) exists if

(a)  = 0 (b)  = 0 (c)  = 0 (d)  = 

[x]
|x|
Q 5. If f(x) = ¸x  0 where [.] denotes the greatest integer function, then f'(1) is

(a) -1 (b)  (c) nonexistent (d) none of these

 
f '  0
Q 6. If f(x) = |cos 2x| then  4  is equal to

(a) 2 (b) 0 (c) -2 (d) none of these

Q 7. If (x) = sin [x] then f'(1 – 0) is equal to

(a) -1 (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) none of these

Q 8. Let f(x) = [x2] – [x]2, where [.] denotes the greatest integer function. Then

(a) f(x) is discontinuous for all integral values of x

(b) f(x) is discontinuous only at x = 0, 1

(c) f(x) is continuous only at x = 1 (d) none of these

Q 9. Let f(x) = [cos x + sin x], 0 < x < 2 where [x] denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to x.
The number of points of discontinuity of f(x) is
 (a) 6 (b) 5 (c) 4 (d) 3

Q 10. Let f(x) = x – |x – x2|, x  [-1, 1] . Then the number of points at which f(x) is discontinuous is

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 0 (d) none of these

Let f(x)  1  x ,x  3
2
Q 11.

3x  1, 3  x  4

[x], 4 ≤ x < 5, where [x] is the greatest integer ≤ x

|1 – x|, x  5

The number of points of discontinuity of f(x) in R is

(a) 3 (b) 0 (c) infinite (d) none of these

x 1
Q 12. Let f(x) =
 0
t sin dt
t . Then the number of points of discontinuity of the function f(x) in the open
interval (0, ) is

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) infinite

Q 13. Let f : [0, 1]  [0, 1] be a continuous function. Then

(a) f(x) = x for all least one 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 (b) f(x) will be differentiable in [0, 1]

(c) f(x) + x = 0 for at least one x such that 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 (d) none of these

Q 14. Let f(x) be a continuous function defined for 1 ≤ x ≤ 3. If f(x) takes rational values for all x and
f(2) = 10 then the value of f(1.5) is

(a) 7.5 (b) 10 (c) 5 (d) none of these

1/ x 2
Q 15. If f(x) = e , x  0, and f(0) = 0 then f'(0) is

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) e (d) nonexistent

Q 16. Let f(x) = sin x, g(x) = [x + 1] and g{f(x)} = h(x), where [.] is the greatest integer function. Then

h'  
 2  is

(a) nonexistent (b) 1 (c) -1 (d) none of these

Q 17. Let f(x)= [x], g(x) = |x| and f{g(x)} = h(x), where [.] is the greatest integer function. Then h'(-1) is

(a) 0 (b) - (c) nonexistent (d) none of these

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f(x)  x 
Q 18. The number of values of x  [0, 2] at which the real function 2 + |x – 1| + tan x is not
finitely differentiable is

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 0

Q 19. Let f(x) = [n + p sin x], x  (0, ), n  Z , p is a prime number and [x] = the greatest integer less
than or equal to x. The number of points at which g(x) is not differentiable is

(a) p (b) p – 1 (c) 2p + 1 (d) 2p – 1

1
Q 20. Let f(x) = (x – 1) cos x  1 - |x|, x  1
2

-1, x = 1

The set of points where f(x) is not differentiable is

(a) {1} (b) {0, 1} (c) {0} (d) none of these

1  sin x   
f(x)  ,x x f 
Q 21. Let sin 2x 2 . If f(x) is continuous at 2 then  2  should be

1
(a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 2 (d) none of these

Q 22. A function f(x) is defined as below

cos(sin x)  cos x
f(x)  , x  0 and f(0)  a
x2 .

f(x) is continuous at x = 0 if a equals

(a) 0 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6

1  tan x   
f(x)  x 0, 2 
Q 23. Let 4x   , 4 and x   


x
, 4

 
0, 
If f(x) is continuous in  2  then  is

1 1

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 2 (d) none of these
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
(sin x)  2x , x 
Q 24. Let f(x) = 2.

 
x then f  
If f(x) is continuous at 2  2  is

(a) e (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) none of these

1
f(x)  sin
Q 25. Let x , x  0. Then f(x) can be continuous at x = 0

(a) if f(0) = 1 (b) if f(0) = 0 (c) if f(0) = -1 (d) for no value of f(0)

Q 26. If f(x) = px2 – q, x  [0, 1)

x + 1, x  (1, 2]

and f(1) = 2 then the value of the pair (p, q) for which f(x) cannot be continuous at x = 1 is

(a) (2, 0) (b) (1, -1) (c) (4, 2) (d) (1, 1)

Q 27. If f(x) = x, x ≤ 1, and f(x) = x2 + bx + c, x > 1, and f'(x) exists finitely for all x  R then

(a) b = -1, c  R (b) c = 1, b  R (c) b = 1, c = -1 (d) b = -1, c = 1

Choose the correct options. One or more options may be correct.

Q 28. If f(x) = ex, x < 2

a + bx, x  2

is differentiable for all x  R then

(a) a + b = 0 (b) a + 2b = e2 (c) b = e2 (d) none of these

Q 29. If f(x) = cos-1(cos x) then f(x) is

(a) continuous at x =  (b) discontinuous x = -

(c) differentiable at x = 0 (d) nondifferentiable at x = 

Q 30. Let f(x) = x - |x|. Then

(a) f(x) is continuous everywhere (b) f(x) is differentiable everywhere

(c) f(x) is discontinuous at x = 0 (d) f(x) is not differentiable at x = 0

 1
x  2 
Q 31. If f(x) = [x] +   , where [.] denotes the greatest integer function, then
 1
lim f(x)  1
(a) f(x) is continuous at x = 2 (b) x 1/ 2  0

1
lim f(x)  1
(c) f(x) is discontinuous at x = 2 (d) x 1/ 2  0

Q 32. If f(x) = |2 – x| + (2 + x), where (x) = the least integer greater than or equal to x, then

(a) f(2 – 0) = f(2) = 4 (b) f(x) is continuous at x = 2

(c) f(x) is nondifferentiable at x= 2 (d) f(x) is differentiable but not continuous at x = 2

Q 33. Let h(x) = min {x, x2} for every real number x. Then

(a) h is continuous for all x (b) h is differentiable for all x

(c) h'(x) = 1 for all x > 1 (d) h is not differentiable at two values of x

Q 34. At x = 0, the function y = e-|x| is

(a) continuous (b) continuous and differentiable

(c) differentiable with derivative = 1 (d) differentiable with derivative = -1

Q 35. A function f(x) is defined as follows :

f(x) = -x2, x ≤ 0 f(x) = 5x – 4, 0 < x ≤ 1

f(x) = 4x2 – 3x, 1 < x ≤ 2 f(x) = 3x + 4, x > 2

(a) f(x) is not continuous at x = 0, but differentiable there

(b) f(x) is continuous at x = 1, but not differentiable there

(c) f(x) is continuous at x = 2, but not differentiable there

(d) none of the above

1 2
f(x)  
Q 36. The function x e2x  1 , x  0, is continuous at x = 0. Then

(a) f(0) = 1 (b) f(x) is differentiable at x = 0

1
f '(0) 
(c) f(x) is not differentiable at x = 0 (d) 3

Q 37. The function f(x) = |x2 – 3x + 2| + cos |x| is not differentiable at x =

(a) -1 (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) 2

Q 38. Let f(x) be defined as follows :

f(x) = x6, x2 > 1

x3, x2 ≤ 1

Then f(x) is

(a) continuous everywhere (b) differentiable everywhere

(c) discontinuous at x = -1 (d) not differentiable at x = 1

Q 39. Let f(x) = sin x, x  0

-sin x, x < 0

The f(x) is

(a) continuous at x = 0 (b) differentiable at x = 0

(c) discontinuous at x = 0 (d) not differentiable at x = 0

n
f(x)   an | x |n
Q 40. If n 0 , where ai’s real constants, then f(x) is

(a) continuous at x = 0 for all ai (b) differentiable at x = 0 for all a i  R

(c) differentiable at x = 0 for a2k+1 = 0 (d) none of these

Q 41. Let [x] denote the greatest integer less than or equal to x. Now g(x) is defined as below :

   
 0,    ,  
g(x) = [f(x)], x   2   2 


 3, x 
2

2(sin x  sinn x) | sin x  sinn x |

f(x) 
2(sin x  sinn x) | sin x  sinn x | , n  R. Then
where


x
(a) g(x) is continuous and differentiable at 2 when n > 1


x
(b) g(x) is continuous and differentiable at 2 when 0 < n < 1


x
(c) g(x) is continuous but not differentiable at 2 when n > 1
 
x
(d) g(x) is continuous but differentiable at 2 when 0 < n < 1

Q 42. Let f(x) = (x) + (x) and '(a), '(a) are finite and definite. Then

(a) f(x) is continuous at x = a (b) f(x) is differentiable at x = a

(c) f(x) is continuous at x = a (d) f'(x) is differentiable at x = a

Q 43. Let f(x) = x + |x|. Then f(x) is

(a) differentiable at all x (b) continuous at all x

(c) differentiable everywhere except at x = 0 (d) continuous everywhere except at x = 0

1  xn
f(x)  lim
n  1  x n
Q 44. Let . Then

(a) f(x) is a constant in 0 < x < 1 (b) f(x) is continuous at x = 1

(c) f(x) is not differentiable at x = 1 (d) none of these

Q 45. Let f(x) = 1 - |cos x| for all x  R. Then


f ' 
(a)  2  does not exist (b) f(x) is continuous everywhere

lim
(c) f(x) is not differentiable anywhere (d) x  / 2  0 f(x) = 1

Q 46. Let f(x) = [tan2 x], where [,] denotes the greatest integer function. Then

lim
(a) x 0 f(x) does not exist (b) f(x) is continuous at x = 0

(c) f'(0) = 1 (d) f(x) is not differentiable at = 0

x
f(x) 
Q 47. If x  1  x be a real-valued function then

(a) f(x) is continuous, but f'(0) does not exist (b) f(x) is differentiable at x = 0

(c) f(x) is not continuous at x = 0 (d) f(x) is not differentiable at x = 0

Q 48. A function f(x) is defined in the interval [1, 4) as follows :

f(x) = loge[x], 1 ≤ x < 3

|loge x|, 3 ≤ x < 4

 The graph of the function f(x)

(a) is broken at two points (b) is broken at exactly one point

(c) does not have a definite tangent at two points

(d) does not have a definite tangent at more than two points

1a 2c 3c 4a 5c 6a 7b 8c 9c 10c

11d 12a 13a 14b 15c 16a 17c 18b 19d 20c

21b 22a 23c 24b 25d 26d 27d 28abc 29ad 30ad

31ab 32ac 33acd 34a 35c 36ab 37cd 38cd 39ad 40ac

41b 42ab 43bc 44ac 45bd 46b 47b 48ac