A spherical balloon is inflated so that its volume is increasing at the rate of 3.9 ft3/min. How rapidly is the diameter of the balloon increasing when the diameter is 1.3 feet?
The volume of the sphere is obtained by the formula,
V = πD^3/6 Differentiating both sides in terms of time will give,
dV/dt = (0.5πD^2)dD/dt Given that the volume is changing at a rate of 3.9 ft^3/min and the diameter is 1.3 ft. dD/dt is obtained by simplifying the equation