1 MIDTERM GROUP 1 – Assignment 3.

CORTEZO, EZEKIEL

DANGANAN, LANZE ALBERT

ESPIÑA, WINONA DASHA

OBIASCA, CATHREENA ALYANNA

SOYLON, KURL LOUIS

VARGAS, FEMALELEY VICHEL

2 MIDTERM GROUP 1 – Assignment 3.2

ASSIGNMENT 3.2: INCREASING/DECREASING FUNCTIONS,

FIRST DERIVATIVE TEST, OPTIMIZATION, RELATED RATES

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1. For the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 18𝑥 2 + 2𝑥 3 − 2 𝑥 4 determine the following:
a) the intervals where the function is increasing and is decreasing by using either the sign
table or test value table.
b) the relative extrema by using the First Derivative Test.

b 3 3
𝑓(𝑥) = 18𝑥 2 + 2𝑥 3 − 2 𝑥 4 𝑓′(𝑥) = 2(18𝑥) + 3(2𝑥 2 ) − 4 ( 𝑥 3 )
2

𝑓(𝑥) ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 max 𝑎𝑡 = 36𝑥 + 6𝑥 2 − 6𝑥 3

𝑥 = −2 𝑜𝑓 𝑓(−2) = 32 𝑓′(𝑥) = 0

𝑓(𝑥) ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 max 𝑎𝑡 36𝑥 + 6𝑥 2 − 6𝑥 3 = 0

189
𝑥 = 3 𝑜𝑓 𝑓(3) = −6𝑥(−6 − 𝑥 + 𝑥 2 ) = 0
2
𝑓(𝑥) ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 min 𝑎𝑡 −6𝑥(𝑥 − 3)(𝑥 + 2) = 0
𝑥= 0

𝑥 = 0, 𝑥 = 3, 𝑥 = −2

-2 0 3

+ - + -

a
𝑓 ′(𝑥) 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 (−∞, 2)&(0,3)

𝑓 ′(𝑥) 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 (−2,0)&(3, ∞)

3 MIDTERM GROUP 1 – Assignment 3.2

2. You are in a dune buggy (a recreational motor vehicle with large wheels and wide tires) in the
desert twelve kilometers due south of the nearest point A on a straight east-west road. You wish
to get to point B on the road eighteen kilometers east of A. If the dune buggy can average
fifteen kilometers per hour traveling over the desert and thirty-nine kilometers per hour
traveling on the road, toward what point on the road should you head in order to minimize your
travel time to B? If you started to travel at 8:00 A.M., what time will reach point B at the least
travel time?
Point on the road
𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒
A x P 18 − 𝑥 B 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 =
𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑
39 km/h

15 km/h
12km
C 𝐶 = √𝑥 2 + 122

𝐶 = √𝑥 2 + 144

buggy
Solve for x Time to reach point B
𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡 = 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙
√52 + 144 18 − 5
𝑡= +
√𝑥2 + 144 18 − 𝑥 15 39
𝑡= +
15 39
𝑡 = 1.2 ℎ𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑟 1 ℎ𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 12 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑠
𝑑 √ 𝑥2 + 144 18 − 𝑥
[𝑡 = + ]
𝑑𝑥 15 39
Time: 8:00 AM + 1hr and 12 mins
𝑑𝑡 1 1 2 1 1
= [ (𝑥 + 144)−2 (2𝑥)] + (−1)
𝑑𝑥 15 2 39
𝑑𝑡 𝑥 1 = 9: 12 𝐴𝑀
= −
𝑑𝑥 15√𝑥 2 + 144 39

We will reach point B on 9:12 AM at least travel time.

𝑑𝑡
𝑠𝑒𝑡 =0
𝑑𝑥
𝑥 1
0= −
15√𝑥 2 + 144 39

39𝑥 = 15√𝑥 2 + 144

1521𝑥 2 = 225(𝑥 2 + 144)

1521𝑥 2 = 225𝑥 2 + 32400

𝑥 = 5 𝑘𝑚 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝐴
4 MIDTERM GROUP 1 – Assignment 3.2

3. A rocket, rising vertically, is tracked by a camera that is on the ground.

At what rate is the camera-to-rocket distance changing when:
a) the vertical distance of the rocket from the ground is 4000 feet and rising vertically at
880 feet per second?
b) the elevation angle is π3π3 radians and increasing at a rate of 0.20 radians per second?
Note that the camera-to-rocket distance is the diagonal distance labeled "s" in the figure
below, not the vertical distance of the rocket from the ground.

Given
z=?
𝑦 = 4000𝑓𝑡 𝑥 = 3000𝑓𝑡 𝑧 =?
𝑑𝑧 𝑑𝑦 𝑑𝑥 𝑑𝑧
=? 60°
= 880𝑓𝑡⁄ =0 =?
𝑑𝑡 𝑑𝑡 𝑠 𝑑𝑡 𝑑𝑡

a 𝑧 = √𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 𝑑𝑧 1 𝑑𝑥 𝑑𝑦
𝑑𝑡
= 𝑧 (𝑥 𝑑𝑡 + 𝑦 𝑑𝑡 )
= √30002 + 40002 1
= 5000𝑓𝑡
((3000 · 0) + (4000 · 880))
𝑧 = 5000 𝑓𝑡
1
= (4000 · 880)
5000𝑓𝑡

𝑑𝑧
= 704𝑓𝑡/𝑠
𝑑𝑡

𝜋 180 180𝜋
b · = = 60°
3 𝜋 3𝜋 𝑑𝜃 33
=( ) 𝑐𝑜𝑠 2 60
𝑑𝑡 200

𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑦 33
𝑑𝜃 22
𝑡𝑎𝑛𝜃 = = =
𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑥 𝑑𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑑.
0.041
𝑠𝑒𝑐.
sin 𝜃 𝑦
= = 𝑟𝑎𝑑. 𝑟𝑎𝑑.
cos 𝜃 𝑥 = 0.041 + 0.20
𝑠𝑒𝑐. 𝑠𝑒𝑐.

𝑑𝜃 (4000 · 0) − (3000 · 880)

=( ) 𝑐𝑜𝑠 2 60 𝑑𝜃 𝑟𝑎𝑑.
𝑑𝑡 (4000)2 𝐴𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟: = 0.241
𝑑𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑐.

𝑑𝜃 2640000
=( ) 𝑐𝑜𝑠 2 60
𝑑𝑡 16000000
5 MIDTERM GROUP 1 – Assignment 3.2