INFINITY

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MAXIMA AND MINIMA

Class 12 - Mathematics

1. A metal box with a square base and vertical sides is to contain 1024 cm3. The material for the top and bottom [5]

costs ₹ 5/cm2 and the material for the sides costs ₹ 2.50/cm2. Find the least cost of the box.
2. Find the radius of a closed right circular cylinder of volume 100 which has the minimum total surface area. [5]
3. Show that a cylinder of a given volume which is open at the top has minimum total surface area, when its height [5]
is equal to the radius of its base.
4. Find the largest possible area of a right-angled triangle whose hypotenuse is 5 cm long. [5]
5. Divide 15 into two parts such that the square of one number multiplied with the cube of the other number is [5]
maximum.
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Of all the closed right circular cylindrical cans of volume 128π cm3 ,find the dimensions of the can which has
minimum surface area.
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7. A wire of length 28m is to be cut into two pieces. One of the pieces is to be made into a square and the other into [5]
a circle. What should be the length of the two pieces so that the combined areas of the square and the circle is
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minimum?
8. A window has the shape of a rectangle surmounted by an equilateral triangle. If the perimeter of the window is [5]
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12 m, then find the dimensions of the rectangle that will produce the largest area of the window.
9. A wire of length 36 cm is cut into two pieces. One of the pieces is turned in the form of a square and the other in [5]
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the form of an equilateral triangle. Find the length of each piece so that the sum of the areas of the two be
minimum.
10. A square piece of tin of side 18 cm is to be made into a box without the top, by cutting a square piece from each [5]
corner and folding up the flaps. What should be the side of the square to be cut off so that the volume of the box
is maximum? Also, find the maximum volume of the box.

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Dr. DEEPAK MALIK (IIT ROORKEE, CMCA GOLD MEDALIST)