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APPLICATIONS OF DERIVATIVES
Class 12 - Mathematics
Time Allowed: 1 hour
Maximum Marks: 38

Section A
Question No. 1 to 4 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
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A gardener wants to construct a rectangular bed of garden in a circular patch of land. He takes the maximum perimeter
of the rectangular region as possible. (Refer to the images given below for calculations)

1. Find the perimeter of rectangle in terms of any one side and radius of circle.
2. Find critical points to maximize the perimeter of rectangle?
3. Check for maximum or minimum value of perimeter at critical point.
4. If a rectangle of the maximum perimeter which can be inscribed in a circle of radius 10 cm is square, then the perimeter
of region.
Question No. 5 to 8 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
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The relation between the height of the plant (y in cm) with respect to exposure to sunlight is governed by the following

equation y = 4x - 1

2
x2 where x is the number of days exposed to sunlight.

5. Find the rate of growth of the plant with respect to sunlight.

6. What is the number of days it will take for the plant to grow to the maximum height?
7. Verify that height of the plant is maximum after four days by second derivative test and find the maximum height of
plant.
8. What will be the height of the plant after 2 days?
Question No. 9 to 13 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
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Ankit wants to construct a rectangular plastic tank for his house that can hold 80 ft3 of water. The top of the tank is
open. The width of the tank will be 5 ft but the length and heights are variables. Building the tank cost ₹20 per sq. foot
for the base and ₹10 per sq. foot for the side.

9. In order to make the least expensive water tank, Nitin need to minimize its

a) Cost b) Curved surface area

c) Volume d) Base
10. Total cost of tank as a function of h can be represented as

a) c(h) = 100 h + 320 + 1600

h
b) c(h) = 100 h - 320 h - 720 h2

c) c(h) = 100 + 320 h + 1600 h2 d) c(h) = 100h - 320 - 1600

11. Range of h is

a) (0, ∞) b) (0, 8)

c) (0, 3) d) (3, 5)
12. Value of h at which c(h) is minimum, is

a) 5 b) 6

c) 4 d) 6.7
13. The cost of least expensive tank is

a) ₹1120 b) ₹1100

c) ₹1220 d) ₹1020
Section B
14. The least value of α ∈ R for which 4αx 2
+
1

x
≥ 1 , for all x > 0, is [1]

a) 1

32
b) 1

25

c) 1

27
d) 1

64

15. If the function f(x) = x3 - 9kx2 + 27x + 30 is increasing on R, then [1]

a) 0 < k < 1 b) -1 < k < 1

c) k < - 1 or k > 1 d) -1 < k < 0

16. Maximum value of ( 1

x
x
) is: [1]
1

a) (e) e b) (e)-e

c) 1 d) (e)e

[1]

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x

17. The function f defined as f(x) = 1 - e −

2
is:

a) decreasing for all x b) increasing for x < 0 and decreasing for x > 0

c) increasing for all x d) decreasing for x < 0 and increasing for x > 0

18. Let f(x) = {x2 - x + 1}, 0 < x < 1, where { } represents fractional part. Then: [1]

a) f is not differentiable at x = b) f is not continuous at x =

1 1

2 2

c) f is monotonically increasing in ( , 1) 1

2
d) f is non monotonic in (0, 1

2
)

19. The maximum value of f(x) = (x - 2) (x - 3)2 is [1]

a) 7

3
b) 0

c) d) 3
4

27

20. Let P(x) be a real polynomial of least degree which has a relative maxima at x = 1 and a relative minima at x = [1]
3. If P(1) = 6 and P(3) = 2, then P '(0) is:

a) 3 b) 8

c) 9 d) 6
21. Let x, y be positive real numbers and m, n positive integers. The maximum value of the expression [1]
m n
x y

2 m 2n
is:
(1+x )(1+y )

m+n
a) 1 b) 6mn

c) d)
1 1

4 2

Section C
22. Show that y = log(1 + x) −
2x

2+x
, where x > −1 is an increasing function of x throughout its domain. [3]
23. Find the intervals in which the function f(x) = sin 3x - cos 3x, 0 < x < π, is strictly increasing or strictly [3]
decreasing.

24. At what point, the slope of the curve y = -x3 + 3x2 + 9x - 27 is maximum? Also, find the maximum slope. [3]

25. A square piece of tin of side 24 cm is to be made into a box without top by cutting a square from each corner and [3]
folding up the flaps to form a box. What should be the side of the square to be cut off so that the volume of the
box is maximum? Also, find this maximum volume.
26. Divide 15 into two parts such that the square of one number multiplied with the cube of the other number is [5]
maximum.

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