15 questions
Which of the following is an appropriate unit for change in area/change in time?
feet/second
inches2/hour
square feet/day
gallons/year
centimeters3/month
Which of the following is an appropriate unit for change in volume/change in time?
feet3/second
inches2/hour
square feet/day
gallons/year
centimeters3/month
Which of the following is an appropriate unit for change in circumference/change in time?
feet/second
inches/hour
square feet/day
gallons/year
centimeters/month
Brandon is starting to clean up after a birthday party. He begins deflating each spherical balloon by puncturing a hole in each. The air leaves the balloon at a constant rate of 2 cm3/sec. How long is the diameter when the diameter is decreasing at a rate of 3 cm/sec?
0.424 cm
0.651 cm
1.333 cm
1.155 cm
Chris is sitting on the edge of a dock tossing rocks into the water. As each rock hits the water, small circles appear traveling outward from the point of impact. The radius of the circle is increasing at a rate of 5 in/sec. How fast is the area increasing when the circumference of the largest circle is 4 in?
40 in2/sec
20 in2/sec
20π in2/sec
40π in2/sec
Chris is sitting on the edge of a dock tossing rocks into the water. As each rock hits the water, small circles appear traveling outward from the point of impact. The radius of the circle is increasing at a rate of 5 in/sec. How fast is the area increasing when the diameter of the largest circle is 8 in?
80π in2/sec
20π in2/sec
60π in2/sec
40π in2/sec
A particle moves along the curve
y = sin2(πx).
As it reaches the point (5/4, 1/2), the y-coordinate is increasing at a rate of 2 in/s. How fast is the x-coordinate of the point changing at that instant?
2π in/s
√2 / π in/s
2 in/s
2/π in/s