Roll No : Name of School : vigyaanam institute Time : 03:00
Date : 2025-07-13 Name of Assessment : AOD
Subject : Mathematics
Class : 12
1Oil is leaking out of a conical funnel of semi-vertical angle at the 4
uniform rate of 2 cm2/s in the surface area through a tiny hole at the
vertex in the bottom. When slant height of the oil is 4 cm, find the
rate of decrease of the slant height of oil. Does leaking of oil leads to
wastage? Can we afford the wastage of natural resources?
2 Liquid is running out of a conical funnel at the rate of 5 cm3/s. If the 4
radius of base of funnel is 10 cm and the altitude is 20 cm. Find the
rate at which water level is dropping when it is 10 cm from the top.
3A woman is moving away from a tower 41.5 m high at the rate of 2 4
m/s. Find the rate at which the angle of elevation of the top of the
tower is changing, when she is at a distance of 30 m from the foot of
the tower. Assume that eye level is 1.5 m from the ground.
4 A man 1.6 m tall walks at the rate of 0.5 m/s away from a lamp post, 4
8 metres high. Find the rate at which his shadow is increasing and
the rate with which the tip of shadow is moving away from the pole.
5 The area of an expanding rectangle is increasing at the rate of 48 4
2
cm /s. The length of the rectangle is always equal to square of
breadth. At what rate, the length is increasing at the instant when
breadth is 4.5 cm?
6A water tank has a shape of an inverted right circular cone with its 4
–
axis vertical and vertex lowermost. Its semi-vertical angle is tan
1
(0.5). Water is poured into it at a constant rate of 5 cubic metre per
minute. Find the rate at which the level of the water is rising at the
instant when the depth of water in the tank is 10 m.
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7 Manufacturer can sell x items at a price of each. The 4
cost price of x items is . Find the number of items he
should sell to earn maximum profit.
8Water is dripping out from a conical funnel, at a uniform rate of 2 4
cm3/s through a tiny hole at the vertex at the bottom, when the slant
height of the water is 4 cm, find the rate of decrease of the slant
height of the water, given that the vertical angle of funnel is 120°.
9 Prove that y = – θ is an increasing function of θ in 4
10 Find the intervals in which the function f given by f(x) = x4 – 8x3 + 4
2
22x – 24x + 21 is (i) increasing (ii) decreasing
11 Let I be the interval disjoint from [–1, 1]. Prove that the function f 4
given by f(x) = x + is strictly increasing on I.
12A given quantity of metal is to be cast into a half cylinder with a 6
rectangular base and semicircular ends. Show that in order that total
surface area is minimum, the ratio of length of cylinder to the
diameter of its semicircular ends is π : (π + 2).
13If the sum of a side and the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle be 6
given, show that the area of the triangle will be maximum if the
angle between the given side and the hypotenuse be 60°.
14A window has the shape of a rectangle surmounted by an equilateral 6
triangle. If the perimeter of the window is 12 m, find the dimensions
of the rectangle that will produce the largest area of the window.
15 Find the area of the greatest rectangle that can be inscribed in an 6
ellipse .
16An open box with a square base is to be made of a given quantity of 6
metal sheet of area c2. Show that the maximum volume of the box is
cubic units.
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17A square tank of capacity of 250 cu metres has to be dug out. The 6
cost of land is 50 per sq metre. The cost of digging increases with
the depth and cost for the whole tank is 400 (depth)2 rupees. Find
the dimensions of the tank for the least cost.
18A jet of an enemy is flying along the curve y = x2 + 2. A soldier is 6
placed at the point (3, 2). What is the nearest distance between the
soldier and the jet ?
19An isosceles triangle of vertical angle 2θ is inscribed in a circle of 6
radius a. Show that the area of triangle is maximum when .
20A wire of length 36 cm is cut into two pieces. One of the pieces is 6
turned in the form of a square and the other in the form of an
equilateral triangle. Find the length of each piece so that the sum of
the areas of the two be minimum.
21The sum of the surface areas of a rectangular parallelepiped with 6
sides x, 2x and and a sphere is given to be constant. Prove that the
sum of their volumes is minimum, if x is equal to three times the
radius of the sphere. Also, find the minimum value of the sum of
their volumes.
22 Find the local maxima and local minima, if any of the function 6
given by f(x) = sin x – cos x, 0 < x < 2π.
23 Prove that the semi-vertical angle of the right circular cone of given 6
–1
volume and least curved surface area is cot
24 Show that of all rectangles inscribed in a given fixed circle, the 6
square has the maximum area.
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25A given quantity of metal sheet is to be cast in to an open tank with 5
a square base and vertical sides asshown. Where x be the side of
base square and y bethe vertical side.
Answer the following based on above information:
(i) If V represent the volume of tank, then find relation between V, x
and y
(ii) Find the total area of tank, expressed as function of x.
(iii) Find x, when total surface area of tank is minimum.
OR
If volume of tank is 1024 cm3. The material for
bottom cost ₹ 5 per cm2 and material for sidescost ₹2.50 per cm2,
then find the value of x sothat cost is minimum.
26The relation between the height of the plant (y in cm) with respect 5
to exposure to sunlight is governed by the following equation y =
4x – where x is the number of days exposed to sunlight.
Answer the following based on above information:
(i) Find rate of growth of the plant with respect to sunlight.
(ii) What are the number of days it will take for the plant to grow to
the maximum height?
(iii) What is the maximum height of the plant?
OR
What will be the height of the plant after 2 days?
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27 P(x) = –5x2 + 125x + 37500 is the total profit function of a 5
company, where x is the production of the company.
(i) What will be the production when the profit is maximum?
(ii) What will be the maximum profit?
(ii) When the production is 2 units what will be the profit of the
company?
OR
What will be production of the company when the profit is ₹ 8250?
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28The shape of a toy is given as f(x) = 6(2x4 – x2). To make the toy 5
beautiful 2 sticks which are perpendicular to each other were placed
at a point (2, 3), above the toy.
(a) Which value from the following may be abscissa of critical
point?
(i) ± (ii) ±
(iii) ± 1 (iv) None
(b) Find the slope of the normal based on the position of the stick.
(i) 360 (ii) –360
(iii) (iv)
(c) What will be the equation of the tangent at the critical point if
it passes through (2, 3)?
(i) x + 360y = 1082 (ii) y = 360x – 717
(iii) x = 717y + 360 (iv) none
(d) Find the second order derivative of the function at x = 5.
(i) 598 (ii) 1176
(iii) 3588 (iv) 3312
(e) At which of the following intervals will f(x) be increasing?
29The total revenue in received from the sale of x units of an article 1
is given by R(x) = 3x2 + 36x + 5. The marginal revenue when x = 15
is (in )
(a) 126
(b) 116
(c) 96
(d) 90
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30 The side of an equilateral triangle is increasing at the rate of 2 cm/s. 1
The rate at which area increases when the side is 10 is
(a) 10 cm2/s
(b) cm2/s
(c) 10 cm2/s
(d) cm2/s
31 The point(s) on the curve y = x2, at which y-coordinate is changing 1
six times as fast as x-coordinate is/are
(a) (2, 4)
(b) (3, 9)
(c) (3, 9), (9, 3)
(d) (6, 2)
32 The function f(x) = log(cos x) is increasing function for . 1
State true or false.
33 The absolute maximum value of y = x3 – 3x + 2 in 0 ≤ x ≤ 2 is 1
(a) 4
(b) 6
(c) 2
(d) 0
34 A spherical balloon has a variable diameter (2x + 1). The rate of 1
change of its volume with respect to x is
(a) (2x + 1)2
(b) π(2x + 1)3
(c) (2x + 1)3
(d) π(2x + 1)2
35It is given that at x = 1, the function f (x) = x4 – 62x2 + ax + 9 attains 1
its maximum value, on the interval [0, 2]. The value of a is
(a) 20
(b) –120
(c) 120
(d) 52
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36 For the function y = x3 + 21, the value of x, when y increases 75 1
times as fast as x, is
(a) ± 3
(b) ± 5
(c) ± 5
(d) none of these
37 The height of the cylinder of greatest volume which can be 1
inscribed in a right circular cone, of height h, is
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d) none of these
38 Diameter of a sphere is (2x + 5), the rate of change of its surface 1
area with respect to x is
(a) 18p (2x + 5)
(c) 9p (2x + 5)
39 The edge of a cube is increasing at the rate of 0.3 cm/s, the rate of 1
change of its surface area when edge is 3 cm is
(a) 10.8 cm
(b) 10.8 cm2
(c) 10.8 cm2/s
(d) 10.8 cm/s
40 Rate of change of volume of a sphere of diameter r, with respect 1
to r is
2 3
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41 The function f (x) = 4 – 3x + 3x2 – x3, x∈R is 1
(a) decreasing function
(b) increasing function
(c) strictly increasing on R
(d) neither increasing nor decreasing on R
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