point of the ladder when the foot of the ladder away

from the wall decreases at the rate of

1. If , then
(a) 2 m/sec (b) 3 m/sec
(a) (b) (c) 2.5 m/sec (d) 1.5 m/sec
9. If by dropping a stone in a quiet lake a wave moves in circle at
a speed of 3.5 cm/sec, then the rate of increase of the enclosed
(c) (d) None of these circular region when the radius of the circular wave is 10 cm, is

2. then at , the value of

(a) 220 sq. cm/sec (b) 110 sq. cm/sec
(c) 35 sq. cm/sec (d) 350 sq. cm/sec
(a) 0 (b) 1
10. A ladder is resting with the wall at an angle of . A man is
(c) 2 (d) None of these
ascending the ladder at the rate of 3 ft/sec. His rate of
3. If approaching the wall is

(a) 3 ft/sec (b) ft/sec

(a) (b)

(c) ft/sec (d) ft/sec

(c) (d)
11. If the volume of a spherical balloon is increasing at the rate of
900cm3per sec, then the rate of change of radius of balloon at
instant when radius is 15cm [in cm/sec]
4. The length of the side of a square sheet of metal is increasing at
the rate of . The rate at which the area of the sheet
is increasing when the length of its side is 2 cm, is (a) (b) 22
(a) (b)
(c) (d) None of these (c) (d) None of these
5. A 10cm long rod AB moves with its ends on two mutually
perpendicular straight lines OX and OY. If the end A be moving 12. A point on the parabola at which the ordinate
at the rate of , then when the distance of A from O increases at twice the rate of the abscissa is
is , the rate at which the end B is moving, is
(a) (b) (2, – 4)

(a) (b)
(c) (d) (2, 4)
(c) (d) None of these
13. A spherical iron ball 10 cm in radius is coated with a layer of
6. If the radius of a circle increases from 3 cm to 3.2 cm, then the ice of uniform thickness that melts at a rate of 50
increase in the area of the circle is cm3/min. When the thickness of ice is 5 cm, then the rate at
which the thickness of ice decreases, is
(a) (b)
(c) (d) None of these (a) cm/min (b) cm/min

(c) (d)
(c) cm/min (d) cm/min
(a) – 2, – 8 (b) 2, 6
(c) – 2, 8 (d) 2, 8
7. A man 2metre high walks at a uniform speed 5 metre/hour 14. The slope of tangent to the curve ,
away from a lamp post 6 metre high. The rate at which the
length of his shadow increases is at the point (2, –1) is

(a) 5 m/h (b) m/h (a) (b)

(c) – 6 (d) None of these

(c) m/h (d) m/h 15. The point of the curve at which the normal is
parallel to the line is
8. A ladder 5 m in length is resting against vertical wall. The
bottom of the ladder is pulled along the ground away from the
wall at the rate of . The length of the highest
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(c) (d) None of these

(a) (5,2) (b)
26. On the interval , the function log sin x is
(c) (5, –2) (d)
(a) Increasing
(b) Decreasing
16. The tangent to the curve at is
(c) Neither increasing nor decreasing
parallel to x-axis. Then (d) None of these
(a) (b) 27. For which interval the given function
(c) (d) is decreasing
17. The sum of intercepts on co-ordinate axes made by tangent to
(a) (b)
the curve is [RPET 1999]
(c) (d) and
(a) (b)
(c) (d) None of these
28. The function is increasing in the interval
18. The normal of the curve
at any is such that (a) (b)

(a) It makes a constant angle with x-axis (c) (d)

(b) It passes through the origin 29. The function is monotonic
(c) It is at a constant distance from the origin decreasing, when
(d) None of these (a) (b)
(c) (d) None of these
19. Local maximum and local minimum values of the function
are 30. In which interval is the given function
(a) – 4, 0 (b) 0, – 4 is monotonically
(c) 4, 0 (d) None of these decreasing
20. The function has a maximum, when x =
(a) [2, 3] (b) (2, 3)
(a) 3 (b) 2 (c) (d)
(c) 1 (d) 0
21. The function in the interval (1, e) has
(a) A point of maximum
(b) A point of minimum
(c) Points of maximum as well as of minimum
(d) Neither a point of maximum nor minimum

22. The function is a non-increasing function in

the interval
(a) [– 1, 1] (b) [0, 1]
(c) [–1, 0] (d) [–1,2]

23. The function is decreasing in the interval

(a) (b)
(c) (d)
24. Which of the following is not a decreasing function on the

interval

(a) (b)
(c) (d)

25. The interval in which the function is non decreasing, is

(a) (b) [0, 2]