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OCR Core 3- Hard rates of change question (5marks)

Hey guys,

Could someone please help me with this question... It's doing my head in, and have spent the last 3 hours trying to solve it:/

Volume=pi(e^p + 4e^0.5p +p - 5)

It is given that the point P is moving in the positive y direction along y axis at constant rate of 0.2cm min^-1. Find the rate at which the volume of the sold is increasing at the instant when p=4.


So my working:

DV/DP = pi(4.e^4 + 2e^2 + 1) is what I get when I differentiate the volume.
The answer to this is 734.6... I multipliy this by 0.2 and should get DV/DT?

I am using DV/DT= DV/DP * DP/DT
The answer is 44, but my answer is not:/ How did they get 44!!!!!

WIll be forever in debt if you can help, and ofc REP+
Original post by J DOT A
Hey guys,

Could someone please help me with this question... It's doing my head in, and have spent the last 3 hours trying to solve it:/

Volume=pi(e^p + 4e^0.5p +p - 5)

It is given that the point P is moving in the positive y direction along y axis at constant rate of 0.2cm min^-1. Find the rate at which the volume of the sold is increasing at the instant when p=4.


So my working:

DV/DP = pi(4.e^4 + 2e^2 + 1) is what I get when I differentiate the volume.
The answer to this is 734.6... I multipliy this by 0.2 and should get DV/DT?

I am using DV/DT= DV/DP * DP/DT
The answer is 44, but my answer is not:/ How did they get 44!!!!!

WIll be forever in debt if you can help, and ofc REP+


Your dV/dP is wrong. It looks like you've managed to get your derivative of e^p as pe^p.
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Original post by EEngWillow
Your dV/dP is wrong. It looks like you've managed to get your derivative of e^p as pe^p.


It's wrong? I thought e^p would be pe^p when differentiating?
Reply 3
Original post by EEngWillow
Your dV/dP is wrong. It looks like you've managed to get your derivative of e^p as pe^p.


hmm I still can't see what I did wrong. if e^p, differentiating that would be pe^p as the general formula for differentating with e, is e^x is xe^x?
Original post by J DOT A
It's wrong? I thought e^p would be pe^p when differentiating?


Nope, ddxex=ex\dfrac{d}{dx} e^x = e^x.

In general, if you have f(x)=eg(x)f(x) = e^{g(x)}, then it's derivitive will be f(x)=g(x)eg(x)f'(x) = g'(x)e^{g(x)}
Reply 5
Original post by EEngWillow
Nope, ddxex=ex\dfrac{d}{dx} e^x = e^x.

In general, if you have f(x)=eg(x)f(x) = e^{g(x)}, then it's derivitive will be f(x)=g(x)eg(x)f'(x) = g'(x)e^{g(x)}


OMG THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!! ITS 3.28AM BUT you still helped me out!
Mate I owe you biggg time!!
Once again thanks, aha sooo stupid!!!
Original post by J DOT A
OMG THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!! ITS 3.28AM BUT you still helped me out!
Mate I owe you biggg time!!
Once again thanks, aha sooo stupid!!!


Lol, no problem....time makes no difference to us uni students! Can't sleep :s
which paper is this
Original post by Xiaoiscute
which paper is this


Did you not realise that you've bumped a thread from 2011?!

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