Caleb Lehman

CALCULUS
RELATED RATES
WORKSHEET #1
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1. A point is moving along the graph of x3y2 = 200. When the point is at (2, 5), its x-
coordinate is changing at the rate of –4 units per minute. How fast is the y-
coordinate changing at that moment?

Answer: 15 units/min
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2. Suppose that the price p (in dollars) and the weekly sales x (in thousands of units)
of a commodity satisfy the demand equation

2p3 + x2 = 4500
Determine the rate at which sales are changing at a time when x = 50 and p = 10,
and the price is falling at the rate of $.50 per week. 0.5
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Answer: $3.00 per week
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3. The volume V of a spherical cancer tumor is given by V =
πx 3
, where x is the
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diameter of the tumor. A physician estimates that the diameter is growing at the
rate of .4 millimeters per day, at a time when the diameter is already 10
millimeters. How fast is the volume of the tumor changing at that time?
0.4
π mm/day
Answer: 20π
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4. A 10-foot ladder is leaning against a wall. Suppose that the foot of the ladder is as
being pulled along the ground at the rate of 3 feet per second. How fast is the top
1 end of the ladder sliding down the wall at the time when the foot of the ladder is 8
45 feet from the wall?
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Answer: –4 ft/sec
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5. 390 feet per second at an altitude of 5000 feet flew directly
over an observer. How fast is the distance from the observer to the airplane
changing at the time when the airplane is 13,000 feet from the observer?
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Answer: 360 ft/sec
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6. A conical water tank has diameter 6 m and depth 5 m. If water is 3 m deep, and is
rising at 5 m/hr, at what rate is the volume changing?
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π/5 m3/hr
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An environmental study of a certain community indicates that there will be
Q( p ) = p 2 + 3 p + 1200 units of a harmful pollutant in the air when the population
is p thousand. The population is currently 30,000 and is increasing at a rate of 94 21000
2,000 per year. At what rate is the level of air pollution increasing?
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Answer: 126 units/year wand
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8. A person 6 feet tall walks away from a streetlight at the rate of 5-ft/ sec. If the
light is 18 feet above ground level, how fast is the person’s shadow lengthening?

Answer: 5/2 ft/sec

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9. A very
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circular base of radius 20 feet with the point on top. Water is flowing into the 41 80
tank at a constant rate of 80 ft3/min. How fast is the water level rising when the r 20
water is 12 feet deep? want dat
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Answer: 20/9π
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10. Hospital officials estimate that approximately N(p) = p + 5p + 900 people will
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seek treatment in the emergency room each year if the population of the
community is p thousand. The population is currently 20,000 and is growing at
the rate of 1200 per year. At what rate is the number of people seeking
emergency room treatment increasing?

Answer: 54 people/year

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