Calculus, 10th Edition (Anton)

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Chapter 13 - Partial Derivatives - 13.4 Differentiability, Differentials, And Local Linearity - Exercises Set 13.4 - Page 949: 62

Answer

$3 r \%$

Work Step by Step

We know the equation: \[ l w h=V \] Obtaining the total derivative of volume $\mathrm{V}$ i.e $d V$ \[ l h d w+l w d h+w h d l=d V \] \[ \frac{d l}{l}+\frac{d w}{w}+\frac{d h}{h}=\frac{d V}{V} \] We can write \[ \begin{array}{|c|c|c|} \frac{d V}{V}|=| \frac{d l}{l}+\frac{d w}{w}+\frac{d h}{h} | \\ \frac{d V}{V}|\leq| \frac{d l}{l}|+| \frac{d w}{w}|+| \frac{d h}{h} | & \end{array} \] We are given that \[ \begin{aligned} \frac{d l}{l}|=| \frac{d w}{w} &=\left|\frac{d h}{h}\right|=\frac{r}{100} \\ \frac{d V}{V} | & \leq \frac{3 r}{100} \end{aligned} \] Therefore, the maximum percentage error in measured $V$ is $3 r \%$
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