VIT Engineering VIT Engineering Solved Paper-2008

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    A spherical balloon is expanding. If the radius is increasing at the rate of 2 cm/min, the rate at which the volume increases (in cubic centimetres per minute) when the radius is 5 cm, is

    A)  \[10\,\pi \]

    B)  \[100\,\pi \]

    C)  \[200\,\pi \]

    D)  \[50\,\pi \]

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    Let r be the radius of spherical balloon. \[\therefore \]Volume, \[V=\frac{4}{3}\pi {{r}^{3}}\] \[\frac{dV}{dt}=\frac{4}{3}\pi 3{{r}^{2}}\frac{dr}{dt}\] \[=4\pi {{r}^{2}}\frac{dr}{dt}\] \[=4\pi {{r}^{2}}\cdot (2)\] \[\left( \because \frac{dr}{dt}=2 \right)\] \[\Rightarrow \] \[\frac{dV}{dt}=8\pi {{r}^{2}}c{{m}^{3}}/min\] Now, when r = 5 cm \[\therefore \frac{dV}{dt}=8\pi {{(5)}^{2}}=200\,\pi \,c{{m}^{3}}/min\]


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