Homework Help: Math

Posted by Peggy on Friday, November 30, 2012 at 1:36pm.

A spherical balloon is inflated with helium at the rate of 100pi ft ^3/min. How fast is the ballon's radius increasing at the instant the radius is 5ft.?

Math - Steve, Friday, November 30, 2012 at 2:36pm
v = 4/3 pi r^3
dv/dt = 4 pi r^2 dr/dt

100 = 4 pi * 25 dr/dt
dr/dt = 1/pi

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