A balloon is filled at a rate of 10cm³ per second.

Find the rate at which the radius is increasing, when the radius is 5cm, 10cm and 12cm.

First define the information that we have been given

We want to find

so we need to relate V and r.

We can now find the rate of change of the radius

We can therefore find the rate of the growth at the requested radii

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