B.

Johnson Calculus Fun Worksheet Ch 3 – Related Rates

1. A ladder 15 ft long is leaning against a building so that the foot of the ladder is on level ground and the top of the
ladder is leaning against the wall. The foot of the ladder is moved away from the building at a constant rate of
.
1
ft/sec
2
a) Find the rate in ft/sec at which the top of the ladder is moving down the building when the foot of the ladder is 9 ft
from the building.
b) Find the rate of change in of the area of the triangle formed by the ladder, ground, and building when the
2
ft / sec
foot of the ladder is 9 ft from the building.

2. The volume of a cone is increasing at . At the instant when the radius of the cone is
 1 2  28π units 3 / sec
V = π r h 
 3 
3 units, its volume is and the radius is increasing at .
12π units 3
1
unit/sec
2
a) At the instant when the radius of the cone is 3 units, what is the rate of change of the area of its base?
b) At the instant when the radius of the cone is 3 units, what is the rate of change of its height?
c) What is the instantaneous rate of change of the area of its base with respect to its height?

3. An airplane is flying west at 500 ft/sec at an altitude of 4000 ft. A searchlight on the ground lies directly under the
path of the plane. If the light is kept on the plane, how fast is the searchlight revolving when the horizontal distance
of the plane from the searchlight is 2000 ft due east?

4. is flowing at the rate of into a tank in the form of an inverted cone having an altitude to 16 m and a
H 2O 2 m 3 / min
radius of 4m. How fast is the level rising when the is 5 m deep?
H 2O H 2O

5. A tank in the shape of a right circular cone with its point downward has an altitude of 11 ft and a radius at the top of 4
ft. It is filled at the rate of .
15 ft 3 / min
a) How long does it take to fill the tank?
b) What are the depth and rate of rising of the water after 10 min?
c) What are the time and rate of rising of the water level when the depth is 5 ft?
d) Find the rising rate at any time t where where T is the time it takes to completely fill the tank.
(0<t <T)

6. A trough has ends shaped like isosceles trapezoids: 11ft wide at the top, 5 ft wide at the bottom and 4 ft in height.
The trough is 12 ft long and is pumped in at the steady rate of .
H2O 15 ft 3 / min
a) How long will it take to fill the trough?
 b) How deep is the after 5min?
H 2O

c) How fast is the rising 5 min after pumping begins?

H 2O
d) What are the depth and rate of rising after 10 min?

7. A tanker accident has spilled oil in Pristine Bay. The “good news” is that oil-eating bacteria are gobbling up the oil at
a rate of . The slick takes the form of a cylinder whose height is the thickness of the slick. When the radius
5 ft 3/hr
of the slick is 500 ft the thickness of the slick is .01 ft, and is decreasing at .001 ft/hr. At this time, what is the rate at
which the area of the slick is increasing?

8. The lengths of two equal sides in an isosceles triangle are increasing at 2 cm/s. The base of the triangle has a fixed
length of 18 cm. Find the rate at which the area of the triangle is increasing when the height equals 12 cm.