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41. A point source of light along a straight road is at a height of ‘a’ metres. A boy ‘b’ metres in height is walking along the road. How fast is his shadow increasing if he is walking away from the light at the rate of c metres per minute?


Let AB = a metres be the lamp-post and PQ = b metres the boy, CP = y be his shadow at time t. Let AP = x.
Now ∆CAB and ∆CPQ are equiangular and hence similar

therefore space space space space space space space PC over AC space equals space PQ over AB
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Water is dripping out from a conical funnel, at the uniform rate of 2 cc/sec through a tiny hole at the vertex of the funnel. When the slant height of water is 5 cm, find the rate of decrease of the slant height of the water.

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(i) the water level rising?
(ii) the water surface area increasing?
(iii) the wetted surface of the vessel increasing?
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An inverted cone has a depth of 10 cm and a base of radius 5 cm. Water is poured into it at the rate of 3 over 2 straight c. straight c. space per space minute. Find the rate at which the level of water in the cone is rising when the depth is 4 cm.

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45. Water is running out of a conical funnel at the rate of 5 cm3/sec. If the radius of the base of the funnel is 10 cm and the altitude is 20 cm, find the rate at which the water level is dropping when it is 5 cm from the top.
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Show that the tangent to the curve y = 7x3 + 11 at the points where x = 2 and x = – 2 are parallel.

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