Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH102/December 2015/Question 19 (b)
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Question 19 (b) |
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In deciding how long a resident’s shift in the emergency room should be, the Chief of Staff at Vancouver General Hospital would like to minimize the average rate at which errors are made. Let be the number of errors made by a resident from the start of a shift until t hours into the shift. The instantaneous rate of change of errors made is (b) What is the total number of errors, , made hours into a shift? |
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To find , first determine . Then, use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to find from . |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. It is impossible for the resident to make any errors at time , so . Next, recall that the fundamental theorem of calculus states that
where is the derivative of . Now, calculate for any as follows. Let . Then in the above equation, set , , , and . By the fundamental theorem of calculus
As , it follows that
To calculate the above definite integral, we calculate the following indefinite integral (below, recall that 48 is 16 times 3).
Now compute
Hence . By simply changing notation (write t instead of s) we can re-write our solution as
which is the answer to the question. |