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Integrals 5 Questions

The document contains 5 word problems involving calculating integrals to determine distances, rates of change, and other quantities. The problems involve a trip distance based on velocity, water flow from a faucet, change in a cat's meowing volume as it climbs a tree, an amount painted based on a changing painting rate, and determining initial speed based on distance traveled.

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Integrals 5 Questions

The document contains 5 word problems involving calculating integrals to determine distances, rates of change, and other quantities. The problems involve a trip distance based on velocity, water flow from a faucet, change in a cat's meowing volume as it climbs a tree, an amount painted based on a changing painting rate, and determining initial speed based on distance traveled.

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1.

Bob leaves for a trip at 3pm (time t = 0) and drives with velocity miles per
hour, where t is measured in hours. What is the distance Bob drove from 3pm to 5pm?

Solution:
First we find the value of the integral:

is the distance Bob drove from time t = 0 hours to time t = 2 hours. Since we're told 3pm
corresponds to t = 0, t = 2 corresponds to 5pm. Putting everything together,

is the distance Bob drove from 3pm to 5pm.

2. A faucet is turned on and water flows out at a rate of gallons per


minute, where t is the number of minutes since the faucet was turned on. To the nearest
gallon, how much water flows out of the faucet during the first two minutes the faucet is
turned on?
Answer:
We want to know the change in the amount of water that has come out of the faucet from
time t = 0 minutes to time t = 2 minutes. This means we need to integrate v(t) from 0 to 2.

Rounding to the nearest gallon, 11 gallons come out of the faucet during the first 2 minutes it is
turned on.
3. Skippy the cat meows more loudly the higher she climbs in her favorite tree. Her volume

changes at a rate of decibels per foot, where h is Fluffles' height above


ground measured in feet. How much does Fluffles' volume change as she climbs from
10 feet up in the tree to 30 feet up in the tree?

Answer
Since h is given in feet and v(h) in decibels per feet, the integral

is measured in decibels. This integral represents the change in Fluffles' volume as she climbs
from 10 feet up in the tree to 20 feet up in the tree. It remains to evaluate the integral.

Fluffles' volume changes by approximately 8 decibels as she climbs from 10 feet up in the tree
to 20 feet up in the tree.

4. Shauna starts painting at noon. She can paint (140 – kt) square feet per hour, where t is
the number of hours since she started painting and k is a constant accounting for the
fact that Shauna slows down as she gets tired. If Shauna paints 100 square feet
between 2pm and 3pm, what is k?

Answer
To find the number of square feet Shauna paints between 2 and 3pm, we integrate her rate of
painting from t = 2 to t = 3:
We see Shauna painted square feet between 2pm and 3pm. Since the problem
says she painted 100 square feet during this time interval, we must have

5. A ball is thrown at the ground from the top of a tall building. The speed of the
ball in meters per second isv(t) = 9.8t + v0,where t denotes the number of
seconds since the ball has been thrown and v0 is the initial speed of the ball (also
in meters per second). If the ball travels 25 meters during the first 2 seconds after
it is thrown, what was the initial speed of the ball?
Answer
The distance the ball travels during the first 2 seconds after it is thrown is given by

Since we know this integral must be equal to 25, we need to solve the equation

for v0.

We conclude that the ball's initial speed was 2.7 meters per second.

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