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A person is walking away from a lamppost at 3 ft/sec. The problem asks for the rate at which the tip of the shadow moves away from the pole when the person is 10 ft away, and also the rate at which the tip of the shadow moves away from the person when the person is 10 ft from the pole.

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Der. Related Rate

A person is walking away from a lamppost at 3 ft/sec. The problem asks for the rate at which the tip of the shadow moves away from the pole when the person is 10 ft away, and also the rate at which the tip of the shadow moves away from the person when the person is 10 ft from the pole.

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350 Chapter 4 I Applications of Derivatives

4.1 EXERCISES
For the following exercises, find the quantities for the given 7. Two airplanes are flying in the air at the same height:
equation. airplane A is flying east at 250 mi/h and airplane B is flying
north at 300 mi/h. If they are both heading to the same
1. Find <J; at x = 1 and y = x 2
+ 3 if �1 = 4. airport, located 30 miles east of airplane A and 40 miles
north of airplane B, at what rate is the distance between the
airplanes changing?
2. Find �1 at x = -2 and y = 2x 2
+ 1 if <J; = -1.
3. Find �� at (x, y) = (1, 3) and z 2 = x 2 + y 2 if
y
dx =4 and d = 3.
dt dt

For the following exercises, sketch the situation if


necessary and used related rates to solve for the quantities.

4. [T] If two electrical resistors are connected in parallel,


the total resistance (measured in ohms, denoted by the
Greek capital letter omega, Q) is given by the equation
}= Ii1 + Ii2. If R 1 is increasing at a rate of 0.5 Q/min
and R 2 decreases at a rate of l. lQ/min, at what rate
8. You and a friend are riding your bikes to a restaurant
does the total resistance change when R 1 = 20Q and that you think is east; your friend thinks the restaurant is
R2 = 50Q/min? north. You both leave from the same point, with you riding
at 16 mph east and your friend riding 12 mph north. After
5. A 10-ft ladder is leaning against a wall. If the top of the you traveled 4 mi, at what rate is the distance between you
ladder slides down the wall at a rate of 2 ft/sec, how fast changing?
is the bottom moving along the ground when the bottom of
the ladder is 5 ft from the wall? 9. Two buses are driving along parallel freeways that are
5 mi apart, one heading east and the other heading west.
Assuming that each bus drives a constant 55 mph, find the
rate at which the distance between the buses is changing
when they are 13 mi apart, heading toward each other.

10. A 6-ft-tall person walks away from a 10-ft lamppost at


a constant rate of 3 ft/sec. What is the rate that the tip of
the shadow moves away from the pole when the person is
10 ft away from the pole?
10

6. A 25-ft ladder is leaning against a wall. If we push the


ladder toward the wall at a rate of 1 ft/sec, and the bottom
of the ladder is initially 20 ft away from the wall, how
fast does the ladder move up the wall 5 sec after we start
pushing?
11. Using the previous problem, what is the rate at which
the tip of the shadow moves away from the person when the
person is 10 ft from the pole?
352 Chapter 4 I Applications of Derivatives

31. A tank is shaped like an upside-down square pyramid, 39. A lighthouse, L, is on an island 4 mi away from the
with base of 4 m by 4 m and a height of 12 m (see the closest point, P, on the beach (see the following image). If
following figure). How fast does the height increase when the lighthouse light rotates clockwise at a constant rate of
the water is 2 m deep if water is being pumped in at a rate 10 revolutions/min, how fast does the beam of light move
1
of m/sec? across the beach 2 mi away from the closest point on the
beach?

For the following problems, consider a pool shaped like the


bottom half of a sphere, that is being filled at a rate of 25
ft3/min. The radius of the pool is 10 ft.

32. Find the rate at which the depth of the water is


changing when the water has a depth of 5 ft.

33. Find the rate at which the depth of the water is


changing when the water has a depth of 1 ft. 40. Using the same setup as the previous problem,
determine at what rate the beam of light moves across the
34. If the height is increasing at a rate of 1 in./sec when beach 1 mi away from the closest point on the beach.
the depth of the water is 2 ft, find the rate at which water is
being pumped in. 41. You are walking to a bus stop at a right-angle corner.
You move north at a rate of 2 m/sec and are 20 m south
35. Gravel is being unloaded from a truck and falls into a of the intersection. The bus travels west at a rate of 10 ml
pile shaped like a cone at a rate of 10 ft3/min. The radius of sec away from the intersection - you have missed the bus!
the cone base is three times the height of the cone. Find the What is the rate at which the angle between you and the bus
rate at which the height of the gravel changes when the pile is changing when you are 20 m south of the intersection and
has a height of 5 ft. the bus is 10 m west of the intersection?

36. Using a similar setup from the preceding problem, find For the following exercises, refer to the figure of baseball
the rate at which the gravel is being unloaded if the pile is diamond, which has sides of 90 ft.
5 ft high and the height is increasing at a rate of 4 in./min.

For the following exercises, draw the situations and solve


the related-rate problems.

37. You are stationary on the ground and are watching


a bird fly horizontally at a rate of 10 m/sec. The bird is
located 40 m above your head. How fast does the angle of
elevation change when the horizontal distance between you
and the bird is 9 m?

38. You stand 40 ft from a bottle rocket on the ground and


watch as it takes off vertically into the air at a rate of 20 ft/
sec. Find the rate at which the angle of elevation changes
when the rocket is 30 ft in the air.

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