1.

Air is pumped into a spherical ball which expands at a rate of 8 cm3 per second (8 cm3 s1).
Find the exact rate of increase of the radius of the ball when the radius is 2 cm.
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2.

The following diagram shows an isosceles triangle ABC with AB = 10 cm and AC = BC. The
vertex C is moving in a direction perpendicular to (AB) with speed 2 cm per second.

B at the moment the triangle is equilateral.

Calculate the rate of increase of the angle CA

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3.

The following diagram shows the points A and B on the circumference of a circle, centre O,
B = . Points A and B are moving on the circumference so that is
and radius 4 cm, where AO
increasing at a constant rate.

Given that the rate of change of the length of the minor arc AB is numerically equal to the rate
of change of the area of the shaded segment, find the acute value of .

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(Total 6 marks)

4.

The volume of a solid is given by

V=

4 3
r r 2 h.
3

At the time when the radius is 3 cm, the volume is 1 cm3, the radius is changing at a rate of 2
cm/min and the volume is changing at a rate of 204 cm3/min. Find the rate of change of the
height at this time.
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5.

Car A is travelling on a straight east-west road in a westerly direction at 60 km h1. Car B is

travelling on a straight north-south road in a northerly direction at 70 km h1. The roads
intersect at the point O. When Car A is x km east of O, and Car B is y km south of O, the
distance between the cars is z km.

Find the rate of change of z when Car A is 0.8 km east of O and Car B is 0.6 km south of O.
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6.

A gourmet chef is renowned for her spherical shaped souffl. Once it is put in the oven, its
volume increases at a rate proportional to its radius.
(a)

Show that the radius r cm of the souffl, at time t minutes after it has been put in the
dr k
oven, satisfies the differential equation
, where k is a constant.
dt r
(5)

(b)

Given that the radius of the souffl is 8 cm when it goes in the oven, and 12 cm when its
cooked 30 minutes later, find, to the nearest cm, its radius after 15 minutes in the oven.
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(Total 13 marks)

7.

An airplane is flying at a constant speed at a constant altitude of 3 km in a straight line that will
take it directly over an observer at ground level. At a given instant the observer notes that the
1
1
radians per second. Find the speed, in kilometres
angle is radians and is increasing at
3
60
per hour, at which the airplane is moving towards the observer.

Airplane
x
3 km

Observer

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8.

The radius and height of a cylinder are both equal to x cm. The curved surface area of the
cylinder is increasing at a constant rate of 10 cm2/sec. When x = 2, find the rate of change of
(a)

the radius of the cylinder;

(b)

the volume of the cylinder.

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