Bonus  Practice

 

Windmill power

This past summer,  I visited a windmill farm in Joice, Iowa  There were 86 Giant Windmills producing electricity.

 

Under certain conditions, the power P, in watts  per hour, generated by a windmill with winds blowing v miles per hour is give by

 

P(v) = 0.015v3                  a)  find the power generated by 15 mph winds.

                                   b)   How fast must the wind blow in order to generate 120 watts of power in 1 hour?

                                   c)    copy the graph that you used to find the answers to these questions.  Make sure you label the

                                        Domain and Range that you used that "makes sense" in this application.

 

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