JEE Main 2025 — Application Of Derivatives Question with Solution
From: JEE Main 2025 (Online) 23rd January Evening Shift
Question
A spherical chocolate ball has a layer of ice-cream of uniform thickness around it. When the thickness of the ice-cream layer is 1 cm , the ice-cream melts at the rate of and the thickness of the ice-cream layer decreases at the rate of . The surface area (in ) of the chocolate ball (without the ice-cream layer) is :
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