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Question 01 (g)

Short-Answer Questions. Put your answer in the box provided but show your work also. Each question is worth 3 marks, but not all questions are of equal difficulty. Full marks will be given for correct answers placed in the box, but at most 1 mark will be given for incorrect answers. Unless otherwise stated, it is not necessary to simplify your answers in this question. A vertical cylindrical tank with radius 3m is being filled with water at a rate of 5m3/min. How fast is the height of the water increasing?

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Hint 1
What is the relationship between the volume of water being added and the increase in the water's height?

Hint 2
Recall that the formula for a cylinder's volume is $V=\pi r^{2}h$ Where r is the radius of the base and h is the height.

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Solution

Found a typo? Is this solution unclear? Let us know here. Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. The two variables that are changing in this problem are the volume of water and the height of the water. These two variables are related in the formula for volume of a cylinder: $V=\pi r^{2}h$ For this problem, we know that the radius of the cylinder is 3, so we can put that into our formula to get: $V=9\pi h$ Since the question is asking about rates of change, we will differentiate the above formula with respect to t. ${\frac {dV}{dt}}=9\pi {\frac {dh}{dt}}$ In this new formula, dh/dt stands for the rate at which the height of the water is changing, which is what we're solving for. We also know that dV/dt stands for the rate at which the volume of water is changing, which is 5 m3/min. So substituting in dV/dt = 5 we have: $5=9\pi {\frac {dh}{dt}}$ And solving for dh/dt we get: ${\frac {dh}{dt}}={\frac {5}{9\pi }}m/min$

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