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A pole 12 meters long is leaning against a vertical wall of a building. if the foot of the pole is being pulled away from the
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Faye
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A road perpendicular to a highway leads to a farmhouse located 5 miles away. An automobile traveling on the highway passes
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Andy
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A 17- foot ladder is leaning against a wall, and begins to slide. The top of the ladder is falling at a rate of 2 feet per
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angie
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A light is placed on the ground 30 ft from a building. A man 6 ft tall walks from the light toward the building at the rate of 5
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Mohammed
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A ladder 25 feet long is leaning against the wall of a house. The base of the ladder is pulled away from the wall at a rate of 2
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Anonymous
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Assume that x and y are both differentiable functions of t and the required values of dy/dt and dx/dt
xy=6 a) Find dy/dt, given
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Ray
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Water is being withdrawn from a conical reservoir, 3 metres radius and 10
metres deep at 4 cubic metres per minute. a) How fast
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My4ws6
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Related Rates: The minute hand on a watch is 9 mm long and the hour hand is 6 mm long. How fast is the distance between the tips
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TayB
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Related Rates Problem: Two cars start moving from the same point. One travels south at 40 mi/h and the other travels west at 30
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TayB
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While building a snowman, a large snowball is created at the rate of 5 inches per hour. How fast is the volume of the snowball
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Anonymous
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Gravel is being dumped from a conveyor belt at a rate of 30 ft3/min. It forms a pile in the shape of a right circular cone whose
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Anonymous
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Oil spilled from a ruptured tanker spreads in a circle whose area increases at a constant rate of 7.5 mi2/hr. How rapidly is
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Anonymous
1,437 views
A 25-ft ladder rests against a vertical wall. If the bottom of the ladder slides away from the wall at a rate of 0.18 ft/sec,
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Zachary Griner
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A particle is moving along the curve y= 2 \sqrt{4 x + 4}. As the particle passes through the point (3, 8), its x-coordinate
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Alessandra
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A sphere is increasing in volume at the rate of 3(pi) cm^3/sec. At what rate is the radius changing when the radius is 1/2 cm?
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Anonymous
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A ladder leans against a vertical wall and the top of the ladder is sliding down the wall at a
constant rate of 1/2 ft/sec. At
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Connie
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Answers to any of these questions would be of great help! (:
1 a) At noon, ship A is 150km west of ship B. Ship A is sailing
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Alison
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A spherical balloon is being filled with air in such a way that its radius is increasing at a rate of 2 centimeters per second.
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winston
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A particle moves along the curve y=square sqrt 1+x^3. As it reaches the point (2,3), the y-coordinate is increasing ata a rate
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tim
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Wheat is poured through a chute at the rate of and falls in a conical pile whose bottom radius is always half the altitude. How
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Anonymous
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A plane flying with a constant speed of 24 km/min passes over a ground radar station at an altitude of 8 km and climbs at an
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Danny
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A potter forms a piece of clay into a cylinder. As he rolls it, the length,L, of the cylinder increases and the radius, r,
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mandy
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A kite 100 ft above the ground moves horizontally at a speed of 3 ft/s. At what rate is the angle (in radians) between the
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Ryan Rachedi
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Gravel is being dumped from a conveyor belt at a rate of 10 ft3/min, and its coarseness is such that it forms a pile in the
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Ryan Rachedi
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11. A person 1.8 m tall walks away from a spotlight 10 m above the ground at a rate of 1.5 m/s. How fast is the length of the
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Lana
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The radius of a spherical snowball is decreasing at a rate of 2 inches per hour. How fast is the snowball melting in terms of
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Casey Hodges
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sand is being dropped at a rate of 10cubic meters per minute onto a conical pile. if the height of the pile is always half the
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ian
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A boat is pulled into a wharf by a rope at a speed of 20m/min. If the rope is attached to a point on the boat 7m vertically
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Marilyn
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A ladder is 25 feet long and leaning against a vertical wall at 3 ft/sec. Suppose we wish to determine how fast the top of the
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Grace
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A spherical balloon is inflated at the rate of 1 cm^3 per minuter. At the instant when the radius r=1.5,
(a.) how fast is the
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Lance
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In the problem, x and y are differentiable functions of t. Find dx/dt when x = 3, y = 4, and dy/dt= 2.
x^2 + y2^2= 25
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Ravi Shankar
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A ladder 20 ft long leans against a vertical wall, If top slides downward at the rate of 2 ft/sec, find how fast the lower end
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Mohammed
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Air is being blown into a spherical balloon at the rate of 75 cm3/s. Determine the rate at which the radius of the balloon is
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ron
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You are watching the Chicago marathon from your friend's apartment, 100 feet above the street. A runner passes the building at
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Chris
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Related Rates Problem
An isosceles triangle with a base of 20root3 cm long. If the length of the leg decreases at rate 3 cm/h,
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bedo
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Sands falls off a conveyor belt onto the ground at a steady rate of 200cm^3 per second forming a conical pile whose height
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Anonymous
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Mulch is dumped into a pile with height always 1/3 the diameter at a rate of 30 ft^3/hr. How fast is the height increasing when
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Sally
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A hot air balloon, 50 feet from an observer, is rising at 20 ft/sec. At 5 seconds after lift off
1. How fast is the distance
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Mary
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I worked some on this earlier, and botched it a bit, so here goes again.
<i>A water tank is made by rotating f(x)=2^x-1 between
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Steve
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Gravel is being dumped from a conveyor belt at a rate of 20 {\rm ft}^3{\rm /min}. It forms a pile in the shape of a right
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Matt
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Oil spilled from a ruptured tanker spreads in a circle whose area increases at a constant rate of 6.5 {\rm mi}^2{\rm /hr}. How
2 answers
asked by
Smith
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Related Rates: A lighthouse is located on a small island 4 km away from the nearest point P on a straight shoreline and its
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TayB
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Related Rates: A ladder 10 ft long rests against a vertical wall. If the bottom of the ladder slides away from the wall at a
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TayB
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Related Rates: If a snowball melts so that its surface area decreases at a rate of 6 cm2/min, find the rate at which the
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TayB
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Water is leaking out of an inverted conical tank at a rate of 12,000 cm3/min at the same time that water is being pumped into
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TayB
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Gravel is being dumped from a conveyor belt at a rate of 20 ft3/min, and its coarseness is such that it forms a pile in the
1 answer
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TayB
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A spherical balloon is inflated at a rate of 10 cm^3/min. How fast does the radius change when the radius is 20 cm?
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Mike
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Sand falls from a hopper into a conical pile with radius equal to half its height. The sand is poured at a rate of 3 m^3 each
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Mike
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CEMENT IS POURED SO THAT IT CONTINUOUSLY FORMS A CONICAL PILE,THE HEIGHT OF W/H IS TWICE THE RADIUS OF THE BASE,IF THE CEMENT IS
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GZAT
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A 10-ft ladder rests against a vertical wall. If the bottom of the ladder slides away from the wall at a rate of 1 ft/sec, how
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Anonymous
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