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Aleks [24]
3 years ago
7

Gravel is being dumped from a conveyor belt at a rate of 40 ft3/min. It forms a pile in the shape of a right circular cone whose

base diameter and height are always the same. How fast is the height of the pile increasing when the pile is 13 ft high?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Norma-Jean [14]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

\frac{dh}{dt}=\frac{160}{169\pi }  ft/min

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a classic related rates problem.  Gotta love calculus!

Start out with the formula for the volume of a cone, which is

V=\frac{1}{3}\pi r^2h

and with what we know, which is \frac{dV}{dt}=40

and the fact that the diameter = height (we will come back to that in a bit).

We need to find \frac{dh}{dt} when h = 13

The thing we need to notice now is that there is no information given to us that involves the radius.  It does, however, give us a height.  We need to replace the r with something in terms of h.  Let's work on that first.

We know that d = h.  Because d = 2r, we can say that 2r = h, and solving for r gives us that r=\frac{h}{2}.

Now we can rewrite the formula with that replacement:

V=\frac{1}{3}\pi  (\frac{h}{2})^2h

Simplify that all the way down to

V=\frac{1}{12}\pi  h^3

The derivative of that function with respect to time is

\frac{dV}{dt}=\frac{1}{12}\pi(3h^2)\frac{dh}{dt}

Filling in what we have gives us this:

40=\frac{1}{12}\pi (3)(13)^2\frac{dh}{dt}

Solve that for the rate of change of the height:

\frac{dh}{dt}=\frac{160}{169\pi } \frac{ft}{min}

or in decimal form:

\frac{dh}{dt}=.95\pi  \frac{ft}{min}

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