# Homework 7

Directions:

1. Show each step of your work and fully simplify each expression.
2. Turn in your answers in class on a physical piece of paper.
3. Staple multiple sheets together.
4. Feel free to use Desmos for graphing.

1. Suppose a demand equation for cotton shirts is $100x^2 + 9p^2 = 3600$ where $x$ represents (in thousands) the number of shirts demanded each week when the unit price is $\$p$. How fast is the quantity demanded increasing when the unit price per shirt is$\$14$ and the price is decreasing at $\$0.15$shirt/week? 2. The formula for the volume$V$of a cube with side length$s$is$V = s^3$. The sides of the cube are 5 feet long and increasing at the rate of$0.2$inches/second. How fast is the volume of the cube changing? 3. Suppose a drop of dye was dropped into a large bowl filled with water. If the dye spreads out in a circle and its radius is increasing at a rate of 2 cm/sec, determine how fast the area is increasing when the radius of the circle is 10 cm. 4. Suppose a meat distributor is willing to make$x$pounds of beef available every week on the marketplace when the price is$\$p$ per pound. The relationship between quantity supplied and price is $650p^2 - x^2 = 100$ If 30,000 pounds of beef are available on the marketplace this week and the price per pound is falling by 2 cents per week, at what rate is the supply falling?
6. The number of housing starts is related to the mortgage rate by the equation $11N^{3}+r=16$ where $N(t)$ is the number of housing starts (in units of a million) and $r(t)$ is the mortgage rate (in percent per year). What is the rate of change of the mortgage rate with respect to time when the number of housing starts is 1 million and is decreasing by $1/33$ of a million per year?
7. Suppose $9a^2 + 4b^2 = 36$ where $a$ and $b$ are functions of time. If $\dfrac{db}{dt} = \frac{1}{3}$, find $\dfrac{da}{dt}$ when $a = 2$ and $b = \dfrac{2}{3}\sqrt{5}$.