OCR Stats 1 2018 March — Question 3

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleStats 1 (Statistics 1)
Year2018
SessionMarch
TopicDifferentiation Applications
TypeOptimization with constraints

3 On a particular voyage, a ship sails 500 km at a constant speed of \(v \mathrm {~km} / \mathrm { h }\). The cost for the voyage is \(\pounds R\) per hour. The total cost of the voyage is \(\pounds T\).
  1. Show that \(T = \frac { 500 R } { v }\). The running cost is modelled by the following formula. $$R = 270 + \frac { v ^ { 3 } } { 200 }$$ The ship's owner wishes to sail at a speed that will minimise the total cost for the voyage. It is given that the graph of \(T\) against \(v\) has exactly one stationary point, which is a minimum.
  2. Find the speed that gives the minimum value of \(T\).
  3. Find the minimum value of the total cost.