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Application of derivatives
CASE STUDY BASED QUESTIONS
1. Ankit wants to construct a rectangular tank for his house that can hold 80 ft3 of water. He
wants to construct on one corner of terrace so that sufficient space is left after constriction
of tank. For that he has to keep width of tank constant 5ft, but the length and heights
are variables. The top of the tank is open. Building the tank cost Rs.20 per sq. foot for the
base and Rs.10 per sq. foot for the side.

Now based on above information answer the following questions-

(i) Express cost of tank as a function of height t(h). 1
(ii) Verify by second derivative test that cost is minimum at critical point. 1
(iii) Find the value of h at which C(h) is minimum. 2

[OR]
Find the minimum cost of tank?
2. An open tank with rectangular base and vertical sides is to be constructed so as to hold
8000 liters of water. The tank is 2m deep and material for bottom costs rupees 1800 per
square meter and rupees 900 per square meter for vertical faces.

Now based on above information answer the following questions

(i) If x and y represents the length and breadth of rectangular base, then 2
find the total cost of construction of the base?
(ii) Find the least cost of construction of the tank? 2
3. A CEO in a company was hard working and always used new strategies for deployment
of the employees of the company’s betterment but so many times he was not able to
produce a handsome profit for his company. He planned to change his strategies and

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 formed a committee to of employees to work on it and finally his company produced
profit and the total profit function is given by 𝑓(𝑥) = -5𝑥2 + 125𝑥 + 37500
Where x is the production of company

Now based on above information answer the following questions

(i) What will be the production when profit is maximum? 2
(ii) Find interval in which profit is strictly increasing? 2
4. Suraj’s father wants to construct a rectangular garden using brick wall on one side
(LENGTH) of the garden and wire fencing for the other three sides as shown in the
figure. He has 200 meters of fencing wire

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) Let x meters denote the length of the side of the garden perpendicular 2
the brick wall and y meters denote the length of side parallel to the
brick wall . Determine the relation representing the total length of
fencing wire and also write A(x) area of the garden?

(ii) Determine maximum value of A(x)? 2

5. An architect designs a building for a multi- national company. The floor consists of a
rectangular region with semicircular ends having a perimeter 200m.

Based on the above information answer the following questions,

(i) If x and y represents the length and breadth of the rectangular 2
region, then find the relation between variable between variable
(ii) Find The area of the rectangular region A expressed as a function of x 1

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 (iii) Find the Maximum value of area A 1
6. A rectangular sheet of metal when heated, its length decreases at the rate of 5 cm/sec and
width increases at the rate of 4 cm/sec.

Based on the above information answer the following questions,

(i) When x=8 cm and y = 6 cm then find the rate of change of perimeter of 1
the plate
(ii) When x=8 cm and y = 6 cm then find the rate of change of area of the 1
plate
(iii) When x=8 cm and y = 6 cm then find the rate of change of diagonal of 2
the plate
6. In a village a boy was fond of kite flying. In one morning he was flying kite which is
moving horizontally at the height of 151.5 meters. The speed of kite is 10 m/sec and
height of boy is 1.5m,

(i) If at any time (when height is 151.5 m) length of string is y meters and 2
horizontal distance of kite is x meters, then find rate of change of string
in terms of x and y?
(ii) When length of string is 250m, then the rate of change of length of 2
string?
7. The relation between the height of the plant (y in cm) with respect to exposure to sun
1
light is governed by the following equation y  4 x  x 2 where x is number of days
2
exposed to sun light

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 Based on the above information answer the following questions,
(i) What is the the rate of growth of the plant with respect to sun light? 1
(ii) What is the number of days it will take to complete for the plant to 2
grow the maximum height?
(iii) What is the maximum height of the plant? 1
8. A cycle racer in the morning is cycling in a free cycling track and sometimes moving zig-
zag. It is found that the path traced by the cyclist is given by the curve f x   x  1x  2
2

. If at any part of time cyclist is at point (x, y).

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) Find value of x for a stationary point? 2
(ii) Find the interval in which f(x) is increasing? 2
9.  
The shape of a toy is given as f x   6 8x  x To make the toy beautiful 2 sticks which are
2

perpendicular to each other were placed at a point (2,3), above the toy.

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) Find the abscissa of critical point? 2
(ii) Find the second order derivative of the function at = 5 . 2
10. Px   5x 2  125x  37500 is the total profit function of a company, where 𝑥 is the
production of the company.

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 (i) What will be the production when the profit is maximum? 2
(ii) What will be the maximum profit? 2
11. Megha wants to prepare a handmade gift box for her friend’s birthday at home. For
making lower part of box, she takes a square piece of cardboard of side 20cm.

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) volume of the open box formed by folding up the cutting corner can be 1
express as V=?
(ii) Megha is interested in maximizing the volume of the box. So, what 1
should be the side of the square to be cut off so that the volume of the
box is maximum?
(iii) Find the maximum value of the volume of the box. 2
12. A tin can manufacturer designs a cylindrical tin can for a company making sanitizer and
disinfector. The tin can is made to hold 3 litres of sanitizer or disinfector

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) If r cm be the radius and h cm be the height of the cylindrical tin can, 1
then the surface area expressed as a function of r as
(ii) The height that will minimize the cost of the material to manufacture 1
the tin can is
(iii) If the cost of material used to manufacture the tin can is 2
1500
Rs.100 / m 2 and 3  7.8, then minimum cost is approximately.
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13. Nitin wants to construct a rectangular plastic tank for his house that can hold 80 ft 3 of
water. The top of the tank is open. The width of tank will be 5 ft but the length and
heights are variables. Building the tank cost Rs 20 per sq. foot for the base and Rs 10 per

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 sq. foot for the side.

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) Total cost of tank as a function of h can be represented as 2
(ii) The cost of least expensive tank is 2
14. Shreya got a rectangular parallelepiped shaped box and spherical ball inside it as return
x
gift. Siders of the box are x, 2 x and , while radius of the ball is r.
3

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) If S represents the sum of volume of parallelepiped and sphere, then S 1
can be written as
(ii) If sum of the surface areas of box and ball are given to be constant k2, 1
then x is equal to
(iii) Find minimum value of S 2
15. An open water tank of aluminum sheet of negligible thickness, with a square base and
vertical sides, is to be constructed in a farm for irrigation. It should hold 32000 L of water
that comes out from a tube well.

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) If the legth, width and height of the open tank be x, x and y m 1
respectively, then total surface area of tank is
(ii) Find the relation between x and y 1
(iii) If cost of aluminum sheet is Rs 360/m , then the minimum cost for the
2 2
construction of tank will be
16. A tank, as shown in the figure belw, formed using a combination of a cylinder and a
cone, offeres better drainage as compared to a flat bottomed tank.

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 A tab is connected to such a tank whose conical part is full of water. Water is dripping
out from a tab at the bottom at the uniform rate of 2cm2/s. the semi vertical angle of the
conical tank is 45o
(i) Find the volume of water in the tank in terms of its radius r 1
(ii) Find the rate of change of radius at an instant when r  2 2cm 1
(iii) Find the rate at which the wet surface of the conical tank is decreasing 2
at an instant when radius r  2 2cm .
17. Kyra has a rectangular painting canvas having a total area of 24ft2 which includes a
border of 0.5 ft on the left, right and a border of 0.75 ft on the bottom, top inside it.

Based on the above information answer the following questions

(i) Find the area of inner rectangle in terms of x if x is the length of the 1
outer rectangle.
(ii) If area of inner rectangle is maximum, then x is equal to 1
(iii) If area of inner rectangle is maximum, then length and breadth of this 2
rectangle are respectively

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