Saturday, April 3, 2010

2005 FR 5 ( i edited my mistakes)

The tide removes sand from Sandy Point Beach at a rate modeled by the function R, given by
A pumping station adds sand to the beach at a rate modeled by the function S, given by

Both R(t) and S(t) have units of cubic yards per hour and t is measured in hours for . At time t=0, the beach contains 2500 cubic yards of sand.
(a) How much sand will the tide remove from the beach during this 6-hour period? Indicate units of measure.

fnInt(2+5sin(4π t/25),t,0,6)= 31.816 cubic yards

(b) Write an expression for Y(t), the total number of cubic yards of sand on the beach at time t.

Y(t) = fnInt(s(t))- fnInt(R(t)) + 2500
Y(t) = fnInt((15t/(1+3t)) - (2+5sin(4π t/25)) + 2500

(c) Find the rate at which the total amount of sand on the beach is changing at time t=4.

(Y(t))=nDeriv (2500+fnInt (S(t)-R(t), t, 0, x) )=S(t)-R(t).
S(4)-R(4)=-1.909 cubic yards/hours.



(d) For , at what time t is the amount of sand on the beach a minimum? What is the minimum value? Justify your answers.

S(t)-R(t) = 0 to find critical pts.
critical pt at t=5.118,and 0 and 6

y(5.118)= 2492.369 cubic yards
t=5.118
minimum value at t=5.118 is 2 492.369 cubic yards


Thank you!!!
for correcting my mistakes!!!







5 comments:

  1. Well for part c, you didn't put the "fnInt" in front of your S(t)-R(t), so you ended up taking the derivative of S(t)-R(t). But when you take the derivative of the antiderivative, you are left with just "S(t)-R(t)"
    If you don't get it, I kind of explained it a bit more on my blog. I think this messed up your part "D" as well. So if you fix it, then you'll get what i THINK is the right answer, (:

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  2. As Dianna said, you forgot the fnInt in front of S(t)-R(t) in part c, which appears to effect your answer. As for part d...did you use the equation you made in part c? If so, then it should follow that that's the incorrect minimum. It looks like Dianna explained it all already, go with what she said.

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  3. yeah we got the same answers for a and b. I did my blog without my own graphing calc.
    THanks, for c it was a typo. I dont know why i put "^2" and for i think youre suppose to make s(t)-r(t)= 0 to find the critical points. I completely messed up when i graphed the 2 equations for D.

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  4. I like how you revised your work ! :]
    Good job, Wendy.

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  5. i completely forgot about the comment part!!! Well you will be my first one haha
    i revised your blog before you edited it and did see that same mistake in part C but you revised it now so its all good

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