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Differentiation: 1. Given The Curve - Find The Maximum Point of The Curve. (3 Marks)
Differentiation: 1. Given The Curve - Find The Maximum Point of The Curve. (3 Marks)
PAPER 1 1. Given the curve f ( x) = x 2 8 x + 3 . Find the maximum point of the curve. [3 marks]
Answer : ... 2. Given that r cm is the radius of a sphere. Calculate the approximate change in its area when the radius increases from 8 cm to 8.002 cm. [4 marks]
[2 marks]
Answer : ...
4.
x5 . Find x2 + 3 the coordinates of the point when the curve intersects the y-axis. the gradient of the tangent at point (1, -1).
[4 marks]
Answer: (a).. (b). 5. Given that y = 5 4 x 2 . Find the approximate change in y when x decreases from 3 to 2.98. [4 marks]
Answer : ... 6. The point P lies on the curve y = (x 5)2. It is given that the gradient of the normal at P is . Find the coordinates of P.
1 4
[3 marks]
Answer : ... [3
Answer : ... 8.
7 It is given that y = u , where u = 3 x 5 . Find
2 3
dy in terms of x. dx
[3 marks]
Answer : ... 9. The area of a sphere increases at a rate of 4.2 cm2s-1 when it is heated. Find (a) the rate of change of the radius when the radius is 3 cm, (b) the rate of change of the volume at that instant. [4 marks]
Answer: (a)..
[3 marks]
Answer : ... 11. Given that y = 3x + x 4 , (a) (b) find the value of
dy when x = 1, dx
2
express the approximate change in y, in terms of p, when x changes from 1 to 1 + p, where p is a small value. [4 marks]
PAPER 2
a cm 2x cm DIAGRAM 1 12. Diagram 1 shows the frame of a window formed from a rectangle of width 2 x cm and of height a cm and a semicircle on top of it. Given that the perimeter of the window is 80 cm. (a) Show that the area of the window, L, is given by L = 2 x 40 x
x . 4
[2 marks] (b) (c) Find the value of x such that the area of the window is a maximum. Hence, find the value of L. [5 marks] Given that the radius of the semicircle increases at the rate 0.5 cms -1 when it is heated. Find the rate of change of the area of the window, L, when the radius of the semicircle is 10 cm. [3 marks]
13. 10x cm y cm 12x cm DIAGRAM 2 (a) (i) (ii) A piece of wire of length 150 cm is bent to form a shape as shown in Diagram 2. Show that the area enclosed by the wire, in cm2, is given by L = 900 x 144 x 2 . Hence, find the maximum area of the figure. [5 marks] 5
(b)
the approximate change in x when y increases from 5.25 to 5.28. the rate of change of y at the instant when x = 0.8 units per second. marks]
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14.
P (1, 5)
DIAGRAM 3
5
(a)
The total surface area of an open cylinder of radius r cm is 27 cm 2 . (i) Show that the volume of the cylinder , V cm 3 , is given by r V= (27 r 2 ) 2 (ii) Find the maximum volume of the cylinder. [5 marks]
(b)
( 5 x 3)
5 (a) 0, - , 3 (b)
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5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
0.48 P(7 , 4) 240 14(3x 5) 6 (a) 0.175 cm s-1 (b) 6.3 cm3 s -1 k = 8 7p
27 cm 3
10. 11.
PAPER 2 12. (b) x = 11.202 cm, L = 448.1 cm2 (c) 4.29 cm2 s-1 13. (a) (ii) 1406.25 cm2