TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE 11.

A rectangular yard is to be built which encloses 400

PHILIPPINES sq. ft. Two opposite sides are to be made from fencing
MANILA which costs 10 peso per foot, while the opposite sides
DIFFRENTIAL CALCULUS COMPETENCY are made from fencing which cost 20 peso per foot. Find
EXAM the least possible cost?
STUDENT a. 1031.3 peso b. 1131.3 peso
NAME___________________________________ c. 1231.3 peso d. 1331.3 peso
DATE_____________________________
DIRECTIONS: PROVIDE THE COMPLETE STEP 12. The volume of a cube is increasing at the rate of 6
BY STEP SOLUTIONS TO SELECT THE BEST cm3/min. How fast is the surface area is increasing when
ANSWER. the length of the edge of the cube is 12 cm?
1. A right triangle has a fixed hypotenuse of 30 cm. And a. 3 cm2/min b. 2 cm2/min
2
the other two sides are allowed to vary. Determine the c. 2.5 cm /min d. 3.5 cm2/min
largest possible area of the triangle.
a. 225 sq.cm b. 234 sq.cm 13. A balloon leaving the ground, 18 m from the
c. 243 sq.cm d. 216 sq.cm observer, rises vertically at a steady rate of 3 m/s. How
fast is the angle of elevation of the line of sight
2. Find the area of the largest rectangle that can be increasing after 8 s.
inscribed in a semicircle of radius r. a. 0.12 rad/s b. 0.08 rad/s
a. 2r2 b. r2 c. ½ r2 d. ¼ r2 c. 0.03 rad/s d. 0.06 rad/s

3. An open box is made from a square piece of 14. Find the point on parabola y=12x 2 that is closest to
cardboard (of side 1) by cutting out four equal (small the point (-4,1).
squares) at the corners and then folding. How big should a. (2,-2) b. (-2, 2) c.(1, -1) d. (-1,1)
the small squares be in order that the volume of the box
be as large as possible? 15. If s = t2 - t3, find the velocity when the acceleration
a. 1/8 b. 1/10 c. 1/6 d. NOTG is zero.
a. v = 1/3 b.v = ½
4. A boy 5 feet tall walks at a rate of 3 feet/sec toward a c. v = 1/5 d.v = 1/6
streetlamp that is 12 feet above the ground. a) What is
the rate of change of the tip of his shadow? 16. A spherical balloon is being filled with air at the rate
a. 15/7 fps b. 36/7 fps of 1 cfs. Compute the time rate of change of the surface
c. 12/5 fps d. 7/15 fps area of the balloon at the instant when its volume is
113.1 cubic feet.
5. A conical tank 20 feet in diameter and 30 feet tall a. 0.67 ft2/sec b. 1.73 ft2/sec
(with vertex down) leaks water at a rate of 5 cubic feet 2
c. 3.0 ft /sec d. 3.7 ft2/sec
per hour. At what rate is the water level dropping when
the water is 15 feet deep? 17. Find the local maxima of the function f(x) = 2x3 –
a. 1/9π b. 1/5π c. 3/7π d. 4/7 9x2 + 12x – 5.
a. x =2 b. x = 1 c. x = -1 d. NOTG
6. The dimension of a box are a, a – 1, a + 4 inches, Find
how fast the total surface area S increases as a increases. 18. At what points does the curve y = 4x – x2 have a
a. 15(a + 1) b. 12(a + 1) slope of 4.
c. 15(a – 1) d. 12(a – 1) a. (0,0) b. (1,2) c. (3,2) d. (-1,2)

7. Find the minimum of the function f(x) = 2x 3 + 3x2 − 19. A particle moves so in a straight line according to the
12x + 17. equation S=t3+at2+bt. If the initial velocity (at t=0) is 5,
a. (1, 10) b (-1, 5) c. (-2, 10) d.(-2, 37) find the value of a such that when t = 1, it is moving
with four times its initial velocity.
8. A farmer is to make a rectangular paddock. The a. 5 b. 6 c. 7 d. 4
farmer has 100 metres of fencing and wants to make the
rectangle that will enclose the greatest area. What 20. The height and base radius of a right circular
dimensions should the rectangle be? cylinder are 20 cm and 8 cm respectively. If the height
a. 25 x 25 b. 10 x 30 decreases at the rate of 3 cm/s and its base radius
c. 15 x 35 d. 16 x 34 increases at the rate of 2 cm/s, at what rate is its volume
changing?
9. What is the radius of an expanding circle at the a. 448 pi b.428 pi c.438 pi d. 418 pi
moment when the rate of change of its area is
numerically twice as large as the rate of change of its
radius?
a. 1/π b. 2/π c.
3/ π d. 4 /π

10. If the parabola y=x2+C is tangent to the line y=4x+3,

find the value of C.
a. 4 b. 7 c. 6 d. 5