1 Find two positive numbers whose product is 64 and whose sum is a minimum. 2 Consider the following problem: A farmer with 870 ft of fencing wants to enclose a rectangular area and then divide it into four pens with fencing parallel to one side of the rectangle. What is the largest possible total area of the four pens? ft 2 1200 cm 2 If of material is available to make a box with a square base and an open top, find the largest possible volume of the box. cm 4 Find the point on the line y = 10x + that is closest to the origin. 5 Find the dimensions of the rectangle of largest area that can be inscribed in an equilateral triangle of side L = 6 cm if one side of the rectangle lies on the base of the triangle. Round the result to the nearest tenth. a. 4 cm,.1 cm b. 6 cm, 1.6 cm c. cm, 2.7 cm d. 2.5 cm, 2.61 cm e. cm, 2.6 cm f. 8 cm, 2.6 cm 6 A right circular cylinder is inscribed in a sphere of radius r = 4 cm. Find the largest possible surface area of such a cylinder. Round the result to the nearest hundredth. cm 2 7 A piece of wire 10 m long is cut into two pieces. One piece is bent into a square and the other is bent into an equilateral triangle. How should the wire be cut for the square so that the total area enclosed is a minimum? 8 A fence 9 ft tall runs parallel to a tall building at a distance of 8 ft from the building. What is the length of the shortest ladder that will reach from the ground over the fence to the wall of the building? Round the answer to the nearest hundredth. ft 9 A conical drinking cup is made from a circular piece of paper of radius R = 5 cm by cutting out a sector and joining the edges CA and CB. Find the maximum capacity of such a cup. Round the answer to the nearest hundredth. cm PAGE 1
10 A woman at a point A on the shore of a circular lake with radius 4 mi wants to arrive at the point C diametrically opposite on the other side of the lake in the shortest possible time. She can walk at the rate of 4 mi/h and row a boat at 1 mi/h. How should she proceed? (Find ). Round the result, if necessary, to the nearest degree. = 11 Find an equation of the line through the point (, 12 ) that cuts off the least area from the first quadrant. 12 Consider the figure below, where a = 6, b = 2 and l =. How far from the point A should the point P be chosen on the line segment AB so as to maximize the angle? Round the result to the nearest hundredth. AP = PAGE 2
1 A painting in an art gallery has height h = 58 cm and is hung so that its lower edge is a distance d = 15 cm above the eye of an observer (as seen in the figure below). How far from the wall should the observer stand to get the best view? (In other words, where should the observer stand so as to maximize the angle subtended at his eye by the painting?) Round the result to the nearest hundredth. a..09 cm b. 1.7 cm c. 6.44 cm d..18 cm e. 1.97 cm f. 5.61 cm 14 The upper left hand corner of a piece of paper 12 in. wide by 18 in. long is folded over to the right hand edge as in the figure. How would you fold it so as to minimize the length of the fold? In other words, how would you choose x to minimize y? x = in. PAGE
15 Find the maximum area of a rectangle that can be circumscribed about a given rectangle with length L = 2 and width W = 5. a. 2.5 b. 21.5 c. 4.5 d. 24.5 e. 25 f. 27.5 16 Ornithologists have determined that some species of birds tend to avoid flights over large bodies of water during daylight hours. It is believed that more energy is required to fly over water than land because air generally rises over land and falls over water during the day. A bird with these tendencies is released from an island that is 6 km from the nearest point B on a straight shoreline, flies to a point C on the shoreline, and then flies along the shoreline to its nesting area D. Assume that the bird instinctively chooses a path that will minimize its energy expenditure. Points B and D are 20 km apart. In general, if it takes 1.7 times as much energy to fly over water as land, to what point C should the bird fly in order to minimize the total energy expended in returning to its nesting area? Your answer will be the distance between B and C (correct to one decimal place). a. 5.8 km b. 4.4 km c. 4.9 km d. 6.7 km e. 5.6 km f.. km PAGE 4
ANSWER KEY 1. 9+4 8,8 7. 1. a 40 4 40 ( ) 11 9 2. 18922.5 8. 12.6 14.. 4000 9. 50.8 15. d 0, fraccoord 0, 4. ( 0.29700,0.02970) 10. 90 16. b ( 0.29700,0.02970) x= 0.29700,y=0.02970 x= 0,y= y= 4x+24 5. e y=4 ( x+6) 11. y+4x 24=0 y+4x=24 6. 162.66 12. 0.17 PAGE 1