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Millennium Progress Academy 8. Let AP and BQ be two vertical poles at points A and B, respectively.

If AP
Introduction to Calculus = 16 m, BQ = 22 m and AB = 20 m, then find the distance of a point R on
Maximum and Minimum Points AB from the point A such that RP2 + RQ2 is minimum.
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9. If length of three sides of a trapezium other than base are equal to 10cm, then
1. Find all the critical numbers to the following functions. find the area of the trapezium when it is maximum.
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(a) f (x) = 31 x3 − |4x − 1| (b) f (x) = 38 x 3 − 6x 3 10. Prove that the radius of the right circular cylinder of greatest curved surface
area which can be inscribed in a given cone is half of that of the cone.
2. Find the intervals in which the following functions are increasing or
decreasing: 11. Find the absolute maximum and minimum values of a function f given by

(a) f (x) = 2x2 − 3x (d) f (x) = x3 − 3x2 + 4x (a) f (x) = 2x3 − 15x2 + 36x + 1 on [1, 5]
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(b) f (x) = 2x3 − 3x2 − 36x + 7 (b) f (x) = 12x 3 − 6x 3 on [−1, 1]
(c) g(x) = x3 − 3x2 + 3x − 100 (e) f (x) = 4x3 − 6x2 − 72x + 30
12. Find the equation of the tangent line and the normal line to the following
function at the given points.
3. Find the intervals in which the following functions are strictly increasing or
decreasing: (a) y = 2x2 − 5x − 6 at the point (3, −3)
(a) f (x) = x2 (x − 2)2 (c) f (x) = (x + 1)3 (x − 3)3 (b) y = 5x3 − 2x2 − x at the point where x = 2
(b) f (x) = −2x3 − 9x2 − 12x + 1 (d) f (x) = x4 + 4x
13. Given f (x) = −ax2 + bx + c. The gradient of the tangent to the graph of f at
the point (−1, 2/7) is 3. Show that a = 21 and b = 2.
4. For what values of a the function f given by f (x) = x2 + ax + 1 is increasing
on [1, 2]? 14. An Apache helicopter of enemy is flying along the curve given by y = x2 + 7.
A soldier, placed at (3, 7), wants to shoot down the helicopter when it is
5. Find relative(local) maximum and relative(local) minimum values of the
nearest to him. Find the nearest distance.
functions f given by
15. A square piece of tin of side 18 cm is to be made into a box without top, by
(a) f (x) = + 2x , x > 0
2
x
(c) f (x) = x3 − 3x
√ cutting a square from each corner and folding up the flaps to form the box.
(b) f (x) = x 1 − x, 0 < x < 1 (d) f (x) = 14 x4 − 2x2 What should be the side of the square to be cut off so that the volume of the
box is the maximum possible.
6. Find two positive numbers whose sum is 15 and the sum of whose squares is
minimum. 16. A rectangular sheet of tin 45 cm by 24 cm is to be made into a box without
top, by cutting off square from each corner and folding up the flaps. What
7. Find the shortest distance of the point (0, c) from the parabola y = x2 , where should be the side of the square to be cut off so that the volume of the box is
1
2
≤ c ≤ 5. maximum ?
17. 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 a circle. What should be the length
of the two pieces so that the combined area of the square and the circle is
minimum?

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