EXTRA EXERCISES: RATE OF CHANGE

1. 2. A piece of wire 60 cm long is bent to form a

circle. when the wire is heated, its length
increases at a rate of 0.1 cm s 1 .
(Use   3.142 )
(a) Calculate the rate of change in the radius of
the circle
(b) Hence, calculate the radius of the circle after
4 second

3. Given y  3x 2  4 x  6 . When x  5 , x
increases by 2%. Find the corresponding rate of
The diagram shows a container in the shape of a
change of y.
pyramid. The square base of the pyramid has an
area of 36 cm2 and the height of the pyramid is 4
cm. Water is poured into the container so that its
surface area is 4p2 cm2 and its height from the
vertex of the pyramid is h cm.

(a) Show that the volume of the container that is dy

3 4. Given y  2 x 3  5x 2  7 , find the value of
filled with water is V  (64  h ) 3
dx
4 at the point (2, 3). Hence, find
(b) If the rate of change in the height of water is 0.2 (a) the small change in x, when y decreases
cm s-1, calculate the rate of change in the from 3 to 2.98
volume of the space that is not filled with water (b) the rate of change in y, at the instant when
if h = 2 cm. x = 2 and the rate of change in x is 0.6 unit
[5m] per second

5. Diagram 2 shows a conical container of 6.

diameter 0.6 m and height 0.5 m. Water is
poured into the container at a constant rate of
0.2 m3 s-1

Calculate the rate of change of the height of the

water level at the instant when the height of the
water level is 0.4 m