INTRO TO CHAPTER 7
Wile E. Coyote is wearing a faulty jet-pack. He runs 30 feet and jumps off a cliff so
that he follows the parabolic path as
pictured.
a. How high is the cliff?
b. What is Coyote's maximum height above the ground?
c. Feeling sorry for Coyote, Roadrunner places a mattress on the ground for him
to land on. How far from the base of the cliff should Roadrunner place the
mattress?
CHAPTER 7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS – MAX/MIN
Bob has 100 meters of fencing to make a rectangular enclosure. He wants to use
some of the fencing to make two partitions inside the enclosure, both parallel to the
same side of the enclosure. The partitions will cut the enclosure into three separate
regions. What should the dimensions of the enclosure be in order to have the
largest possible total area?
CHAPTER 7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS – MAX/MIN
Suppose you are in charge of ticket sales at a football stadium. You found if you
charge $10 dollars a ticket, you sell 1000 tickets and if you charge $11 dollars a
ticket, you sell 970 tickets. If the tickets sold is a linear function of price, what price
should you charge to get the most money?
CHAPTER 7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS – MAX/MIN HARDER
You are creating a window with the shape of a rectangle with a quarter circle on top.
An example is shown in the figure below.
The perimeter will be 100 cm. What is the maximum possible area for the window?
CHAPTER 7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS – MAX/MIN HARDER
You have 8 feet of wire which you would like to use to make two shapes: a square,
and a right triangle, where one leg of the right triangle is three-fourths the length of
the other leg. (You have to use all the wire.)
a. What is the minimum possible total area of the two shapes? What are the
dimensions?
b. What is the maximum possible total area of the two shapes? What are the
dimensions?
CHAPTER 7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS – 3 POINTS
Clovis has built a tomato cannon and is launching tomatoes out his dorm window.
The window is 20 ft above the ground. Clovis launches a tomato and it hits the
ground 20 ft from the dorm. Isabel is standing on the ground 5 ft from the dorm. The
tomato is 27 ft above the ground when it passes over her head.
Give a quadratic function relating the height of the tomato above the ground to its
horizontal distance from the dorm.
What is the tomato's maximum height above the ground?
CHAPTER 7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS – 3 POINTS
What is the quadratic equation that goes through the points ( 5 , 50 ), ( 15 , 80 ) , and ( 25 , 200 )
?
CHAPTER 7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS – PARAMETRIC
Ryan starts walking due south at 3 ft/sec from a point 90 ft north of an intersection.
At the same time, Lucas starts walking due east at 2 ft/sec from a point 100 ft west
of the intersection.
Draw a picture and write an equation that will find the distance between Ryan and
Lucas in terms of time. Simplify your equation completely.
When are Ryan and Lucas closest? What is the shortest distance between them?
CHAPTER 7 PRACTICE PROBLEMS - PARAMETRIC
Albert and Betsy are moving in the xy−¿ plane. They each move along straight lines
at constant speeds. They start moving at the same time.
Albert starts at the point ( 0 , 5 ) and reaches the point ( 10 , 6 ) 4 seconds later.
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Betsy starts at (−3 , 4 ) and moves along the line y= 3 x +3. She crosses the x -axis
after 2 seconds.
What are Albert's parametric equations of motion?
What are Betsy's parametric equations of motion?
When will Albert and Betsy be closest together?
