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Related Rates Problems

The document presents a series of related rates problems involving various scenarios such as a ladder sliding down a wall, a rocket's vertical speed, a rising balloon, and the changing dimensions of a box. Each problem requires the application of calculus concepts to determine rates of change in different contexts. The problems cover a range of topics including geometry, motion, and volume changes.

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Related Rates Problems

The document presents a series of related rates problems involving various scenarios such as a ladder sliding down a wall, a rocket's vertical speed, a rising balloon, and the changing dimensions of a box. Each problem requires the application of calculus concepts to determine rates of change in different contexts. The problems cover a range of topics including geometry, motion, and volume changes.

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Related Rates Problems

1. A ladder 15 ft long rests against a vertical wall. Its top slides down the wall while its bottom
moves away along the level ground at a speed of 2 ft/s. How fast is the angle between the
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top of the ladder and the wall changing when the angle is radians?
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2. A rocket R is launched vertically and its tracked from a radar station S which is 4 miles away
from the launch site at the same height above sea level. At a certain instant after launch, R
is 5 miles away from S and the distance from R to S is increasing at a rate of 3600 miles per
hour. Compute the vertical speed v of the rocket at this instant.
3. A balloon is rising at a constant speed 4 m/sec. A boy is cycling along a straight road at a
speed of 8 m/sec. When he passes under the balloon, it is 36 metres above him. How fast is
the distance between the boy and balloon increasing 3 seconds later?
4. The height of a rectangular box is increasing at a rate of 2 meters per second while the
volume is decreasing at a rate of 5 cubic meters per second. If the base of the box is a
square, at what rate is one of the sides of the base decreasing, at the moment when the
base area is 64 square meters and the rheight is 8 meters?
5. A boy starts walking north at a speed of 1.5 m/s, and a girl starts walking west at the same
point P at the same time at a speed of 2 m/s. At what rate is the distance between the boy
and the girl increasing 6 seconds later?
6. A cylindrical tank of radius 10 feet is being filled with wheat at the rate of 314 cubic feet per
minute. How fast is the depth of the wheat increasing?
7. Oil from an uncapped well in the ocean is radiating outward in the form of a circular film on
the surface of the water. If the radius of the circle is increasing at the rate of 2 meters per
minute, how fast is the area of the oil film growing when the radius is 100 meters.
8. A particle moves along the curve 𝑦 = 2𝑥 3 − 3𝑥 2 + 4. At a certain moment, when x = 2,
the particle's x-coordinate is increasing at the rate of 0.5 unit per second. How fast is its y-
coordinate changing at that moment?

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