SET 3

1. A car starting 12:00 noon travels west at a speed of 30 4. A closed cylindrical tank has a capacity of 576.53 m3.
kph. Another car starting from the same point at 2:00 Find the minimum surface area of the tank in m2.
PM travels north at 45 kph. Find how fast are the two
cars separating at 4:00 PM?

2. Car A moves due east at 30 kph at the same instant Car 5. With only 381.7 m2 of materials, closed cylindrical tank
B is moving S 30o E with a speed of 60 kph. The of maximum volume is to be made. What should be the
distance from A to B is 30 km. Find how fast is the height of the tank in m?
speed between them are separating after 1 hr.

6. A rectangular box with a square base and open at the

3. Determine the diameter of a closed cylindrical tank top is to have a capacity of 16823 cm3. Find the height
having a volume of 11.3 cm3 to obtain a minimum of the box that requires minimum amount of material in
surface area. cm.
7. The cost of a certain product is defined as follows: 10. What is the nearest distance from the external point
C = 50t2 – 200t + 10000 where t is in years. Find the (4,2) to the curve y2 = 8x.
maximum value from year 1995 to 2002.

11. The sum of 2 numbers is K. The product of one by the

8. A revolving searchlight in a lighthouse 2 km offshore is cube of the other is to be a maximum. What is one of
following a car traveling slowly along the shore. When the number.
the car is 1 km from the point on the shore that is closest
to the lighthouse, the searchlight is turning at the rate of
0.25 rev/hr. How fast in kph is the car traveling at this
moment?

𝑥2 𝑦2 12. At 4:00 PM boat A left in the direction N 450 E. At 4:30

9. A rectangle is inscribed in an ellipse + = 1. What PM boat B left the same pier in the direction S 30 0 E at
9 4
is the maximum possible area of the rectangle? 32 mph. How fast were they separating at 5:00 PM in
mph?
13. The sides of the triangle ABC are AB = 7 cm, BC =5 It is estimated that between the hours of noon and 7 PM, the
cm and CA = 9 cm. Determine the width of the largest speed of a highway traffic flowing past the intersection of
rectangle that can be inscribed in it such that the longer EDSA and Ortigas Avenue is approximately S = t3 – 9t2 +
side of the rectangle is on the 9 cm side of the rectangle. 15t + 45 kph where ‘t’ is the number of hours past noon.

17. At what time between noon and 7 PM is the traffic

moving the fastest?

14. A right circular cylinder is inscribed in a right circular

cone of radius 6 cm. Find the radius of the cylinder if
its volume is maximum.

18. At what time between noon and 7 PM is the traffic

moving the slowest.

15. Find the maximum volume if the altitude of the cone is

12 cm.

19. What is the slowest speed if it is moving at this time.

16. Find the radius of the cylinder if its lateral area is a

minimum.
20. A triangular corner lot has perpendicular sides of 23. A cable is to be run from a power plant on one side of
lengths 120 m and 160 m respectively. Find the area and the river 900 km wide to a factory on the other side 3
perimeter of the largest rectangle that can be km upstream. The cost of running the cable overland is
constructed on the lot with sides parallel to the street? $4 per meter while the cost underwater is $5 per meter.
Find the value of x for the most economical cost.

24. Water is flowing into a frustum of a cone at a rate of

21. The total cost of producing a gift item is C = 60x 2 – 100 liters per minute. The upper radius of the frustum
0.01x3 where x is the number of units produced. of the cone is 1.5 m while the lower radius is 1 meter
Determine the value of x to make the average unit cost with a height of 2 m. If the water rises in the tank at the
a minimum. rate of 0.04916 cm/s, find the depth of water.

22. The length of the sides of the triangle are 4.25 cm, 9.61 25. Water is flowing in a conical cistern at the rate of 8
cm and 8.62 cm. A rectangle is inscribed in it such that m3/min. If the height of the inverted cone is 12 m and
the longer side is on the 9.61 cm side of the triangle. the radius of its circular opening is 6 m. How fast is the
What is the length of the rectangle if its area is water rising when the water is 4 m in depth.
maximum?
26. A man is walking at the rate of 4 m/s across a bridge 30 29. Find the minimum volume of a right circular cylinder
m above a river. A boat traveling 12 m/s at right angle that can be inscribed in a sphere of radius 100 cm.
to the roadway of the bridge pass directly beneath her.
How fast is the distance between the boat and the
woman increasing 5 sec later.

30. Find the area of the largest rectangle with sides parallel
27. The sides of a triangle are 6 m and 9 m respectively. If to the coordinate axes which can be inscribed in the area
the included angle is changing at the rate of 2 rad/s, at bounded by the two parabolas y= 26 – x2 and y= x2 + 2.
what rate is the 3rd side changing when the included
angle is 600?

31. Find the area of the largest isosceles triangle that can be
28. A ballon leaving the ground 18 m from the observer
inscribed in a circle of radius 6 inches.
rises 3 m/s. How fast is the angle of elevation of the line
of sight increasing after 8 seconds.
32. A statue 3 m high is standing on a base 4 m high. If an 35. Determine a, b and c so the curve y = ax3 + bx2 + cx
observer’s eye is 1.5 m above the ground. How far will have a slope of 4 at its point of inflection (-1,-5).
should he stand from the base in order that the angle
subtended by the statue is maximum.

36. Determine a, b, c and d so that the curve y = ax 3 + bx2

+ cx + d will have a critical point at the origin and a
33. Water is running in a hemispherical bowl having a point of inflection at (2,4).
radius of 10 cm at a constant rate of 3 cm3.min. When
the water is x cm deep, the water level is rising at the
rate of 0.0149 cm/min. What is the value of x?

37. Find the minimum length of a ladder that will reach a

34. Find the equation of the line tangent to the curve building and rest on a wall 1.5 m high which is 1.2 m
y = x3 – 6x2 + 5x + 2 at its point of inflection. from a building.
38. An object is projected vertically upward. If the distance 41. The equation y = ax3 + bx2 + cx + d has a critical point
traveled by an object is expressed as h = 100t – 16.1t2. at (-1,4) and a point of inflection at (2, -50). Find the
What is the velocity of the object after 2 seconds? coefficients a, b, c and d.

39. Find acute angle of intersection of the parabolas y = x2 42. If P 20,000 will watch a concert at an admission price
-2x -3 and y = - x2 + 6x - 3. of P 100, and if for evert P 5 added to the price, 500
fewer people will attend, what is maximum gate
receipt?

40. Find the acute angle of intersection between y = sin x 43. The cost of fuel in a locomotive is proportional to the
and y = cos x at the first point of intersection in the 1st square of the speed and is $25 per hour for a speed of
quadrant. 25 miles per hour. Other cost amount to $100 per hr
regardless of the speed. What is the speed which will
make the cost per mile a minimum?
44. A ferriswheel has a radius of 10 m. Its center is 12 m 47. A particle moves on the x axis so that its position at any
above the ground. When the passenger is 17 m above time is given by x = 2te-t. Find the acceleration of the
the ground, he is moving at the rate of 1.81 m/s. What particle at t = 0.
is the speed of rotation of the wheel in rpm?

48. Consider the curve y2 = 4 + x and chord AB joining

45. A particle moves according to the parametric equations points A(-4,0) and B(0,2) on the curve. Find the x
y = 2t2 and x = t3 where x and y are the displacements coordinate of the point on the curve where the tangent
in meters and time is in seconds. Determine the line is parallel to chord AB.
acceleration of the body after 3 seconds.

49. Two posts one is 10 m high and the other 15 m high

46. Find the acute angle of intersection of the curves x + xy stand 30 m apart. They are to be stayed by transmission
= 1 and y3 = (x+1)2. wires attached to a single stake at ground level, the
wires running to the top of the posts. Where should the
stake be placed to use the least amount of wire.
50. The parametric equation of a moving particle is: A gutter with trapezoidal cross section is to be made from a
x = tcos 3t , y = t4et and x, y are in meters and time t is long strip of metal 22 cm wide by bending up the edges. If
in seconds. Find the acceleration of the particle when the base is to be 14 cm wide,
time t = 1 sec.
53. What width across the top gives the greatest carrying
volume?

51. Find the minimum length of the line segment 54. What is the greatest carrying volume?
intercepted between the positive coordinate axes is a
minimum that passes through (3,4).

52. What is the mimumum vertical distance between the 55. A circular cone was carved out of a sphere of radius 10
parabolas x = y2 and y = 1 + x2 cm. What is the least amount of material wasted.
56. Water is flowing in a conical reservoir 40 ft deep and The measurement of the side of the cube is 6 cm long.
16 feet across the top at the rate of 2 ft3/min. Find how If this length has an error of 1/12 cm. Find
fast the surface is rising when the water is 4 ft deep. approximately (using differentials) the greatest error in:

59. The Volume

60. The surface Area

57. Suppose the rectangular prism’s dimension were

determined. The length of the base was 15 inches with
a possible error of ∓ 0.25 in. The width is 10 inches
with a possible error of ∓ 0.1 in. The height is 24 inches
with a possible error of ∓ 0.3 in. What is the maximum
error on the volume of the prism?

In the 1st quadrant of the curve y = 9 – x2, a tangent line is

drawn. The tangent line intersects the coordinate axes at
points U and V.

61. Find the minimum length of UV.

58. The sides of triangle are measured to be 30 m and 45 m

and to include a 300 angle. The possible error in
measuring the 1st side is 0.15 m and in the other is 0.2
m while the maximum possible error in measuring the
angle is 30’. Find the largest possible error in the 62. Find the coordinates of the point of tangency.
computed area (using differentials)
63. Water is flowing into a paraboloid of revolution of The upper end of the ladder 5 m long leans against a vertical
height 3 m and radius 1 m at the top at 0.3 m3 per min. wall. Suppose the foot of the ladder slips away from the wall
At what rate is the depth increasing when water is 0.7 at the rate of 0.1 m/min.
m.
65. How fast is the top of the ladder descending when its
foot is 3 m from the wall?

66. When will the top and bottom of the ladder move at the
same rate?

64. A sector of central angle θ is removed from a circular

sheet of tin (radius = 100 cm) and the remaining
material is made into a right circular cone. Find the
value of θ so that the volume of the cone will be 67. When is the top of the ladder descending at the rate of
maximum. 0.15 m/min?

68. How fast is the angle θ at the foot of the ladder

decreasing when the foot is 3 m from the wall?