Edexcel C4 2017 June — Question 7

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleC4 (Core Mathematics 4)
Year2017
SessionJune
TopicDifferential equations

7. \begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{cd958ff3-ed4e-4bd7-aa4b-339da6d618a6-24_835_1160_255_529} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Figure 3}
\end{figure} Figure 3 shows a vertical cylindrical tank of height 200 cm containing water. Water is leaking from a hole \(P\) on the side of the tank. At time \(t\) minutes after the leaking starts, the height of water in the tank is \(h \mathrm {~cm}\). The height \(h \mathrm {~cm}\) of the water in the tank satisfies the differential equation $$\frac { \mathrm { d } h } { \mathrm {~d} t } = k ( h - 9 ) ^ { \frac { 1 } { 2 } } , \quad 9 < h \leqslant 200$$ where \(k\) is a constant. Given that, when \(h = 130\), the height of the water is falling at a rate of 1.1 cm per minute,
  1. find the value of \(k\). Given that the tank was full of water when the leaking started,
  2. solve the differential equation with your value of \(k\), to find the value of \(t\) when \(h = 50\)