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    What Determines the Maximum Area of an Athletic Field?

    i got the 40000/pi - pi(r)^2 by getting the overall area and minus it by the semicircular circles that cap the rectangular part. that's the answer for a.
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    What Determines the Maximum Area of an Athletic Field?

    Homework Statement An athletic field is to be built in the sahpe of a rectangle x units long capped by semicircular regions of radius r at the two ends. The field is to be bounded by a 400-m racetrack. a. Express the area of the rectangular portion of the field as a funcion of x alone or r...
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    Average and Instantaneous Velocity

    Homework Statement a. Show that if the position x of a moving point is given by a quadradic function of t,x = At^2 + Bt + C, then the average velocity over any time iunterval [t1,t2] is equal to the instantaneous velocity at the midpoint of the time interval. b. What is the geometric...
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    How to Make a Circle Tangent to a Parabola at a Given Point?

    An Osculating Circle! HELPPP plZZ urgent Homework Statement find the values of h,k and a that make the circle (x-h)^2+(y-k)^2=a^2 tangent to the parabola y=x^2+1 at the point (1,2) annd that also make the second derivatives d^2y/dx^2 have the same value on both courves.