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Equation Find Given

dy dx
y=x 2 +5 x a. when x=5 =2
dt dt

dx dy
b. when x=1 =3
dt dt

2. A circle’s radius is increasing at a rate of 2 ft/s. At what rate is the area increasing when the radius is
3?

3. A balloon is inflating at a rate of 5.5in3/sec. At what rate is the radius increasing when the radius
is 3?

4. A helicopter is flying on a flight path 7 miles above ground that will take it directly over a radar
tracking station. If s models the distance between the helicopter and the station and s is decreasing at a
rate of 250mph, when s=13mi. what is the speed of the plane?

5. Area 51 is tracking an alien spaceship 1000ft away that is taking off vertically (the vertical rise is
modeled by the equation s= 48t^2). At what rate is the angle between the radar and the spaceship
changing 10 seconds after the space ship leaves the ground?

6. A boat is being pulled into a dock at a rate of 5 ft/sec by a winch 7ft above the water. What is the
speed of the boat when the length of the rope is 18ft?

7. A ladder is 30ft long. The base of the ladder is moving away from a house at a rate of 2 ft/s. At what
rate is the top of the ladder moving down the wall when the base is 10 feet, 12 feet and 20 feet away
from the wall.

8. A 5ft tall person walks at a rate of 4ft/s away from a light that is 17ft above the ground. When he is
10ft from the base of the light, at what rate is the length of his shadow changing?

9. Travis failed AP Calculus and is now working at McDonalds. He is filling a right angle cone with a radius
of 5mm and a height of 12mm with soft served ice cream. The radius of the filled portion increases at a
rate of .5 mm/s. At what rate is the height of the filled portion changing when the volume of ice cream is
210mm3?

10. Travis is eating from a trough that is ten meters long, four meters wide and four meters deep. Travis
eats at a rate of six cubic meters a minute. At what rate is the height of the food decreasing when the
height is three half-meters? (Assume that the height of the food decreases as though it were a liquid)

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