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The document contains 5 related rates problems. The problems involve rates of change related to water filling/draining tanks, a searchlight rotating to track a moving target, distance changing between two people walking in different directions, and Boyle's law relating pressure and volume of a gas.

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2-6 RelatedRateProblems Day2

The document contains 5 related rates problems. The problems involve rates of change related to water filling/draining tanks, a searchlight rotating to track a moving target, distance changing between two people walking in different directions, and Boyle's law relating pressure and volume of a gas.

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Related Rates

Problem 1:
Water is leaking out of an inverted conical tank at a rate of 10,000 cm3/min at the
same time that water is being pumped into the tank at a constant rate. The tank has a
height 6 m and the diameter at the top is 4 m. If the water level is rising at a rate of
20cm/min when the height of the water is 2 m, find the rate at which water is being
pumped into the tank.

Tank:
Givens:

Height = h = 2 m or 200 cm
Diameter= 4 m
Radius= 2m

C= rate of water being pumped in= dV/dt= C 10,000


V= (1/3)r2h

dh/dt= 20 cm3/min

To solve for one variable use similar triangles to solve for r in


terms of h.
(r/2)= (h/6)
r = (h/6)2
r = (1/3)h

Now
V= (1/3) [(1/3)h]2 h
= (1/3) [(1/9)h2]h
= (1/27) h3
Now take the derivative of the new and improved equation
dV/dt = (/9)h2 dh/dt Plug in the known variables
h, dh/dt, dV/dt

C 10,000 = (/9) (200)2(20)


C 10,000 = 800,000/9
C = (800,000/9) + 10,000 289,253 cm3/ min

Problem 2:
A water trough is 10 m long and a cross-section has the shape of an isosceles
trapezoid that is 30 cm wide at the bottom, 80 cm wide at the top and has a height 50 cm.
If the trapezoid is being filled with water at the rate of 0.2 m3/min, how fast is the water
level rising when the water is 30 cm deep?
Trapezoid:
Givens:
0.25 0.3 0.25
a Area of a trapezoid = (1/2) (b1+ b2) h
then the V of the trough = 10A
0.5 h
dV/dt = 20 cm3/ min
0.3 dh/dt = ?
a= 0.25 m
h = 0.5 m
Solution:
V = (1/2) [.03 + (0.3 + 2a)]h (10) use the equation (a/h) = (0.25/.05) =(1/2)
So 2a = 2(0.5h) = h

V = 5 (0.6 + h)h
= 3h + 5h2 0.2 = dV/dt = (3 + 10h)(dh/dt)
then separate the variables dh/dt and h

dh/dt = 0.2/ (3 +10h)


Next, allow h = .3 m as stated in the problem and then solve.
dh/dt = 0.2/ (3 + 10(0.3))
= 0.2/6 m/min
= 10/3 cm/min

Problem 3:
A man walks along a straight path at a speed of 4 m/s. A searchlight is located on
the ground 20 m from the path and is kept focused on the map. At what rate is the
searchlight rotating when the man is 15 m from the point on the path closest to the
searchlight?

Picture:
Let x be distance from point of
path closest to the searchlight
to the man. is the angle between
the beam of searchlight and the
x perpendicular to the path.

20

searchlight
Givens:
dx/dt = 4 m/s
Find d /dt = ? , when x = 15

Use the following equation to relate x and :

x/20 = tan
x = 20 tan

Differentiate both sides of the equation with respect to t to find d /dt.

dx/dt = 20 sec2 d /dt

d /dt = (1/20) cos2 dx/dt


= (1/20) cos2 (4)
= (1/5) cos2

When x = 15 then the length of the beam is 25, so cos = (4/5) and

d /dt = (1/5)(4/5)2
= 16/125 = 0.128
The searchlight is rotating at 0.128 rad/s.

Problem 4:
Two people start from the same point. One walks east at 3 mi/h and the other
walks northeast at 2 mi/h. How fast is the distance between the people changing after 15
minutes?

Picture:

We are given that


y z dx/dt = 3 mi/h
dy/dt = 2 mi/h
45
Use the Law of Cosines to find and equation to find dz/dt.
x

z2 = x2 + y2 2xycos 45
z2 = x2 + y2 - 2xy
Then differentiate
2z(dz/dt) = 2x(dx/dt) + 2y(dy/dt) -2x(dy/dt) - 2y(dx/dt)

After 15 minutes,
x = and y = so z = [(13 - 62)]/4
Lastly insert all the known variables and slove for dz/dt.
2[(13 - 62)]/4 (dz/dt) = 2(3/4)(3) + 2(1/2)(2) - 2(3/4)(2) - 2(1/2)(3)
[(13 - 62)]/2 (dz/dt) = (18/4) + 2 (2/3)2 (3/2)2
dz/dt 2.125 mi/h

Problem 5:
Boyles Law states that when a sample of gas is compressed at a constant
temperature, the pressure P and volume V satisfy the equation PV = C, where C is a
constant. Suppose that at a certain instant the volume is 600 cm3, the pressure is 150 kPa,
and the pressure is increasing at a rate of 20 kPa/min at what rate is the volume
decreasing at this instant?

Givens:

V= 600 cm3
P= 150 kPa PV = C
dP/dt = 20 kPa/min

Differentiate the given equation.

P(dV/dt) + V(dP/dt) = 0
dV/dt = -[V(dP/dt)]/P

Plug in the givens and solve.


dV/dt = -[600(20)]/150
dV/dt = -80 cm3/min

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