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  • Apr 25, 2009, 10:03 PM
    Vi Nguyen
    Related rates, what formula to use
    A section of blood vessel has a flow-rate F in cubic millimetres per
    Minute proportional to the fourth power of its radius, R. The blood vessel can be
    Considered perfectly cylindrical and is expandable. At some instant the
    Flow rate is 30 cubic millimetres per minute when the radius is 0.5 millimetres. At that same instant the flow-rate is increasing at rate of 0.24 cubic millimetres per minute squared.

    (I) What is the rate of increase of the radius at that instant?

    (ii) If the rate of increase of the radius is constant how long after the time when the
    Radius is 0.5 mm is the radius 1 mm?

    Can I still use the volume of a cylinder formula? But here it says that the radius can expand and there is no height given?
  • Apr 26, 2009, 04:53 AM
    galactus
    The problem states

    Therefore, since k is constant,

    Now, they give

    Use the info and the two equations to find k and dR/dt.

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