BASIC CALCULUS WORSHEET

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OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM

Solve each word problem involving optimization. Make a sketch of your work if necessary, and
then apply differentiation. SHOW YOUR SOLUTION.

1. The sum of two numbers is 50. What is the smallest possible product of the two numbers?

2. The product of two positive integers is 240. What is the smallest possible sum for two numbers?

3. You are asked to fence a rectangular region and maximize the area. You are given 260 meters of
fencing materials. What should be the dimensions of the rectangular region?

4. A rectangular garden is to be fenced off along the side of a building. No fence is required along the
side. There are 120 meters of fencing materials to be used. Find the dimensions of the garden with
the largest area.

5. A farmer has 1,200 meters of fencing and wants to fence off a rectangular field that borders a
straight river. He needs no fence along the river. What are the dimensions of the field that has the
largest area?

6. An open box is to be made from a 24 cm square cardboard by cutting equal squares out of the
corners and turning up the sides. Find the height if the box that will give a maximum volume.

7. Find the dimensions of the right circular cylinder of maximum volume which can be inscribed in a
right circular cone with a height of 40 cm and the base radius of 16 cm.

8. You have 40 linear feet of fencing with which to enclose a rectangular space for a garden. Find the
largest area that can be enclosed with this much fencing and the dimensions of the corresponding
garden.

9. A company has identified that the revenue R for a particular product is given by the
equation 𝑓(𝑥) = −𝑥 3 + 300𝑥 2 + 37,500𝑥, where x is the number of units sold. How many units need
to be sold to obtain the maximum revenue?

10. In physics, one important application of the derivative involves the height of a free falling object,
which can be modeled using the position function

ℎ = −16𝑡 2 + 𝑣0 𝑡 + ℎ0

where h is the height of the object in feet, t is the time in seconds, v0 is the initial velocity (in feet
per second), and h0 is the initial height.

Solve: A student throws a ball upward from a height of 48 feet, initially at 32 feet per second.

a. Write the position function that models the height of the ball t seconds after it was thrown.
b. What is the maximum height of the ball?

NOTE:
WRITE YOUR ANSWER IN A LONG BOND PAPER (2 PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED IN EACH BOND
PAPER)
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