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Test paper 1

MATHSAOD EXAMPLES
Class 12 - Mathematics

1. Find the rate of change of the area of a circle per second with respect to its radius r when r = 5 cm. [1]
2. The volume of a cube is increasing at a rate of 9 cubic centimetres per second. How fast is the surface area [3]
increasing when the length of an edge is 10 centimetres?
3. A stone is dropped into a quiet lake and waves move in circles at a speed of 4 cm/s. At the instant, when the [2]
radius of the circular wave is 10 cm, how fast is the enclosed area increasing?
4. The length x of a rectangle is decreasing at the rate of 3 cm/minute and the width y is increasing at the rate of [2]
2cm/minute. when x = 10cm and y = 6cm, find the rates of change of (a) the perimeter (b) the area of the
rectangle.

5. The total cost C(x) in Rupees, associated with the production of x units of an item is given by C(x) = 0.005x3 - [2]

0.02x2 + 30x + 5000.

Find the marginal cost when 3 units are produced, where by marginal cost we mean the instantaneous rate of
change of total cost at any level of output.
6. The total revenue in Rupees received from the sale of x units of a product is given by R(x) = 3x2 + 36x + 5. Find [2]
the marginal revenue, when x = 5, where by marginal revenue we mean the rate of change of total revenue with
respect to the number of items sold at any instant.
7. Show that the function given by f(x) = 7x – 3 is increasing on R. [2]
8. Show that the function f given by f(x) = x3 – 3x2 + 4x, x ∈ R is increasing on R. [1]
9. Prove that the function given by f(x) = cos x is decreasing in (0, π). [1]
10. Prove that the function given by f(x) = cos x is increasing in (π, 2π) [1]
11. Prove that the function given by f(x) = cos x is neither increasing nor decreasing in (0, 2π). [1]

12. Find the intervals in which the function f given by f(x) = x2 – 4x + 6 is [2]

a. increasing
b. decreasing
13. Find the intervals in which the function f given by f (x) = 4x
3
− 6x
2
− 72x + 30 is [2]
i. increasing
ii. decreasing.
14. Find intervals in which the function given by f (x) = sin 3x, x ∈ [0, π

2
] is (a) increasing (b) decreasing. [3]
15. Find the intervals in which the function f given by f(x) = sin x + cos x, 0 ≤ x ≤ 2π is increasing or [3]
decreasing.
16. Find the maximum and the minimum values, if any, of the function f given by [2]

f(x) = x2 , x ∈ R.
17. Find the maximum and minimum values of f, if any, of the function given by f(x) = | x |, x ∈ R. [2]
18. Find the maximum and the minimum values, if any, of the function given by f(x) = x, x ∈ (0, 1). [2]

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19. Find all points of local maxima and local minima of the function f given by f(x) = x3 – 3x + 3. [3]

20. Find all the points of local maxima and local minima of the function f given by f(x) = 2x3 – 6x2 + 6x +5. [2]

21. Find local minimum value of the function f given by f (x) = 3 + |x|, x ∈ R. [2]
22. Find local maximum and local minimum values of the function f given by f (x) = 3x4 + 4x3 – 12x2 + 12 [2]

23. Find all the points of local maxima and local minima of the function f given by f(x) = 2x3 – 6x2 + 6x +5. [2]
24. Find two positive numbers whose sum is 15 and the sum of whose squares is minimum. [2]

25. Find the shortest distance of the point (0, c) from the parabola y = x2, where 1
≤ c ≤ 5 . [3]
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26. Let AP and BQ be two vertical poles at points A and B, respectively. If AP = 16 m, BQ = 22 m and AB = 20 m, [3]

then find the distance of a point R on AB from the point A such that RP2 + RQ2 is minimum.
27. If length of three sides of a trapezium other than base are equal to 10cm, then find the area of the trapezium [5]
when it is maximum.
28. Prove that the radius of the right circular cylinder of greatest curved surface area, which can be inscribed in a [3]
given cone, is half of that of the cone.
29. Find the absolute maximum and minimum values of a function f given by [2]
f (x) = 2x3 – 15x2 + 36x +1 on the interval [1, 5].
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30. Find absolute maximum and minimum values of a function f given by f(x) = 12x 3
− 6x 3
, x ∈ [−1, 1] [3]

31. An Apache helicopter of enemy is flying along the curve given by y = x2 + 7. A soldier, placed at (3, 7), wants [3]

to shoot down the helicopter when it is nearest to him. Find the nearest distance.
32. A car starts from a point P at time t = 0 seconds and stops at point Q. The distance x, in metres, covered by it, in [2]
t seconds is given by
2 t
x = t (2 − )
3

Find the time taken by it to reach Q and also find distance between P and Q.
33. A water tank has the shape of an inverted right circular cone with its axis vertical and vertex lower most. Its semi [5]
vertical angle is tan-1(0.5) water is poured into it at a constant rate of 5 cubic metre per hour. Find the rate at
which the level of the water is rising at the instant when the depth of water in the tank is 4 m.
34. A man of height 2 metres walks at a uniform speed of 5 km/h away from a lamp post which is 6 metres high. [3]
Find the rate at which the length of his shadow increases.
35. Find intervals in which the function given by f(x) =
3

10
x
4
−
4

5
3
x
2
− 3x +
36

5
x + 11 is increasing or [5]
decreasing.
36. Show that the function f given by f(x) = tan–1 (sin x + cos x), x > 0 is always an increasing function in (0, π
)
[3]
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37. A circular disc of radius 3 cm is being heated. Due to expansion, its radius increases at the rate of 0.05 cm/s. [2]
Find the rate at which its area is increasing when radius is 3.2 cm.
38. An open topped box is to be constructed by removing equal squares from each corner of a 3 metre by 8 metre [3]
rectangular sheet of aluminium and folding up the sides. Find the volume of the largest such box
39. Manufacturer can sell x items at a price of rupees (5 −
x
) each. The cost price of x items is Rs (
x
+ 500) . [5]
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Find the number of items he should sell to earn maximum profit.

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