Pretest/Assignment

1. Water runs into a conical tank at the rate of 9 ft 3/min. The tank stands point down and
has a height of 10 ft and a base radius of 5 ft. How fast is the water level rising when the
water is 6 ft deep?
2. A man 2 m tall walks toward a lamppost on a level ground at a rate of 0.5 m/s. If the
lamp is 5 m high on the post, how fast is the length of the man’s shadow decreasing when
he is 3 m from the post? How fast is the shadow of his head moving at that time?
3. Two crates, A and B, are on the floor of a warehouse. The crates are joined by a rope 15 m
long, each crate being hooked at floor level to an end of the rope. The rope is stretched
tight and pulled over a pulley P that is attached to a rafter 4 m above a point Q on the
floor directly between the two crates. If crate A is 3 m from Q and is being pulled directly
away from Q at a rate of 1/ m/s, how fast is crate B moving toward Q?
Lesson Proper
1. Coffee is draining from a conical filter into a cylindrical coffeepot at the rate of 10
in3/min
a. How fast is the level in the pot rising when the coffee in the cone is 5 in. deep?
b. How fast is the level in the cone falling then?
2. Sawdust is falling onto a pile at a rate of ½ m3/min. If the pile maintains the shape of a
right circular cone with height equal to half the diameter of its base, how fast is the
height of the pile increasing when the pile is 3 m high?

3. At an instant an aircraft flying due east at 400 km/h passes directly over a car travelling
due southeast at 100 km/h on a straight, level road. If the aircraft is flying at an altitude
of 1 km, how fast is the distance between the aircraft and the car increasing 36 s after the
aircraft passes directly over the car?
 Posttest

1. A straight highway and a straight canal intersect at right angles, the highway crossing
over the canal on a bridge 20 m above the water. A boat traveling at 20 km/h passes
under the bridge just as a car travelling at 80 km/h passes over it. How fast are the boat
and the car separating after one minute?
2. A rectangular swimming pool 8 m wide and 20 m long. (see figure below) Its bottom is a
sloping plane, the depth increasing from 1 m at the shallow end to 3 m at the deep end.
Water is draining out of the pool at a rate of 1 m3/min. How fast is the surface of the
water falling when the depth of water at the deep end is a) 2.5 m? b) 1 m?