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CHAPTERWISE QUESTION
MATHEMATICS
Class XII APPLICATION OF DERIVATIVES Time : 1½ hrs
SET A Marks : 40
SECTION - A 10 × 1 = 10

1. The edge of a cube is increasing at the rate of 0.3 cm/s, the rate of change of its surface
area when edge is 3 cm is

a) 10.8 cm b) 10.8 cm 2 c) 10.8 cm 2/s d) 10.8 cm/s

2. The point on the curve y = x2 where the rate of change of x –coordinate is equal to the rate
of change of y-coordinate is

1 1 1 1
a) b) c)  ,  d) (1, 1)
2 4 2 4
3. If at x = 1, the function f(x) = x4 – 62x2 + ax + 9 attains its maximum value on the interval
[0, 2]. Then the value of a is
a) 124 b) –124 c) 120 d) –120

4. Which of the following functions is decreasing in  0,  / 2  ?

a) sin 2x b) tan x c) cos x d) cos 3x

5. The interval on which the function f(x) = x3 + 6x2 + 6 is strictly increasing is

a) (–  , –4) U (0,  ) b) (–  , –4) c) (–4, 0) d) (–  , 0) U(4,  )

6. The total revenue in Rupees received from the sale of x units of a product is given by
R(x) = 3x2 + 36x + 5. The marginal revenue, when x = 15 is
a) 116 b) 96 c) 90 d) 126
7. The function f(x) = x – sin x decreases for
a) all x b) x <  / 2 c) 0<x<  / 4 d) no value of x
x
1
8. The maximum value of   is
x
1
1  1 e
a) e b) ee c) e e d)  
e

9. The maximum value of xy, subject to x + y = 8 is

a) 8 b) 16 c) 20 d) 24

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 Two statements are given, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other labelled Reason
(R). Select the correct answer from the codes (a), (b), (c) and (d) as given below.
a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
b) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

c) (A) is true and (R) is false.

d) (A) is false and (R) is true.

d
10. Let f(x) be a polynomial function in a degree 6 such that  f (x)   (x –1)3 (x – 3)2 , then
dx
Assertion (A) : f(x) has a minimum at x = 1.
d d
Reason (R) : When (f (x))  0  x  (a – h, a) and (f (x))  0,  x  (a, a  h); where ‘h’
dx dx
is an infinitesimally small positive quantity, then f(x) has a minimum at
x = a, provided f(x) is continuous at x = a.

SECTION - B 2×2=4

11. Radius of variable circle is changing at the rate of 5 cm/s. What is the radius of the circle
at a time when its area is changing at the rate of 100 cm 2/s?

OR

The side of an equilateral triangle is increasing at the rate of 0.5 cm/s. Find the rate of
increase of its perimeter.

12. Find the intervals in which f(x) = x2 – 2x + 15 is strictly increasing or strictly decreasing.

SECTION - C 4 × 3 = 12

13. A man 1.6 m tall walks at the rate of 0.5 m/s away from a lamp post. 8 meters high. Find
the rate at which his shadow is increasing and the rate with which the tip of shadow is
moving away from the pole.

14. Sand is pouring from a pipe at the rate of 12 cm 3/s. The falling sand forms a cone on the
ground in such a way that the height of the cone is always one-sixth of the radius of the
base. How fast is the height of the sand cone increasing when the height is 4 cm?

15. Find the intervals in which the function f(x) = 2x3 – 9x2 + 12x + 15 is strictly increasing.

OR

 
Separate  0,  into subintervals in which f(x) = sin 3x is (a) increasing (b) decreasing.
 2


16. Prove that f(x) = sin x + 3 cos x has maximum, value at x = 6 .

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 SECTION - D 2 × 5 = 10
17. Find the intervals in which the function f(x) = 3x4 – 4x3 – 12x2 + 5 is increasing or decreasing.
18. Show that the surface area of a closed cuboid with a square base and given volume is
minimum, when it is a cube.
OR
Prove that the volume of the largest cone that can be inscribed in a sphere of radius R is
8
of the volume of the sphere.
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SECTION - E

CASE STUDY

19. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follows.

Dr. Ritham residing in Delhi went to see an apartment of 3BHK in Noida. The window of
the house was in the form of a rectangle surmounted by a semicircular opening having a
perimeter of the window 10 m as shown in figure.

i) If x and y represent the length and breadth of the rectangular region, then what is the
relation between the variable. 1

ii) Write the area of the window (A) expressed as a function of ‘x’.
1

iii) Dr. Ritam is interested in maximizing the area of the whole window. For this to happen
what should be the value of ‘x’? 2

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M-6
CHAPTERWISE QUESTION
MATHEMATICS
Class XII APPLICATION OF DERIVATIVES Time : 1½ hrs
SET A Marks : 40
SECTION - A 10 × 1 = 10
1. The total revenue in received from the sale of x units of an article is given by
R(x) = 3x2 + 36x + 5. The marginal revenue when x = 15 is (in ).

a) 126 b) 116 c) 96 d) 90

2. The interval on which the function f(x) = 2x3 + 9x2 + 12x –1 is decreasing, is

a) (–1,  ) b) (–2, –1) c) (–  , –2) d) [–1, 1]

3. The function f(x) = 4 sin3 x–6 sin2x + 12 sin x + 100 is strictly

 3    
a) increasing in  ,  b) decreasing in  ,  
 2   2 
    
c) decreasing in  – ,  d) decreasing in  0, 
 2 2  2
4. The function f(x) = 2x3 – 3x2 – 12x + 4 has

a) two points of local maximum b) two points of local minimum

c) one maximum and one minimum d) no maximum, no minimum

5. The rate of change of the area of a circle with respect to its radius r at r = 6 cm is

a) 10  cm 2/cm b) 12  cm 2/cm c) 8  cm 2/cm d) 11  cm 2/cm

6. The maximum value of the function f(x) = 5 + sin 2 x is

a) 1 b) 6 c) 4 d) –1
7. The absolute maximum value of f(x) = x3 – 3x + 2 in 0  x  2 is
a) 4 b) 6 c) 2 d) 0

8. For the function y = x3 + 21, the value of x, when y increases 75 times as fast as x is

a) 3 b) 5 3 c) 5 d) none of these

2 3
9. A particle moves along the curve y = x  1 . The x-coordinates of the points on the curve
3
at which y-coordinate is changing twice as fast as x-coordinate is
5 1
a) 1 b) 1 c) d)
3 3

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 Two statements are given, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other labelled Reason
(R). Select the correct answer from the codes (a), (b), (c) and (d) as given below.
a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
b) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

c) (A) is true and (R) is false. d) (A) is false and (R) is true.

10. Let C be the circumference and A be the area of a circle.

Assertion (A) : The rate of change of the area with respect to radius is equal to C.
c
Reason (R) : The rate of change of the area with respect to diameter is .
2
SECTION - B 2×2=4

11. If the rate of change of volume of a sphere is equal to the rate of change of its radius, then
find the radius.

OR
3
A balloon which always remain spherical has a variable diameter (2x  1) . Find the rate
2
of change of its volume with respect to x.

12. Show that the function f(x) = (x3 – 6x2 + 12x + 18) is an increasing function on R.

SECTION - C 4 × 3 = 12

13. The area of an expanding rectangle is increasing at the rate of 48 cm 2/s. The length of the
rectangle is always equal to square of breadth. At what rate, the length is increasing at the
instant when breadth is 4.5 cm?
 
14. Show that f(x) = tan–1 (cos x + sin x) is a strictly increasing function on the interval  0,  .
 4

15. Show that f(x) = 2x + cot –1 x + log  

1  x 2 – x is increasing in R.

16. Find the local maximum and the local minimum values of the function
–3 4 45 2
f(x) = x – 8x 3 – x  105 .
4 2
OR

A telephone company in a town has 500 subscribers on its list and collects fixed charges
of 300 per subscriber per year. The company proposes to increase the annual subscription
and it is believed that for every increase of 1 per one subscriber will discontinue the
service. Find what increase will bring maximum profit.

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 SECTION - D 2 × 5 = 10

17. Show that the height of the cylinder of maximum volume that can be inscribed in a sphere
2R
of radius R is . Also, find the maximum volume.
3

OR
Two men A and B start with velocities v at the same time from the junction of two roads
inclined at 45o to each other. If they travel by different roads, then find the rate at which
they are being separated.
18. The internal box with a square base and vertical sides is to contain 1024 cm 3. The material
for the top and bottom costs 5 per cm 2 and the material for the sides costs 2.50 per
cm 2. Find the least cost of the box.
SECTION - E

CASE STUDY

19. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

The relation between the height of the plant (‘y’ in cm) with respect to its exposure to the
1 2
sunlight is governed by the following equation y = 4x – x , where ‘x’ is the number of
2
days exposed to the sunlight for x  3 .

i) Find the rate of growth of the plant with respect to the number of days exposed to the
sunlight. 2

ii) Does the rate of growth of the plant increase or decrease in the first three days? What
will be the height of the plant after 2 days? 2

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