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$1.00 Calculus

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A ladder 10 feet long rests against a vertical wall. If the bottom of the ladder slides away from the wall at a rate of 7 feet per second, how fast is the top of the ladder sliding down the wall ( in feet per second) when the bottom of the ladder is 6 feet from the wall?

 


   
   
   
   
 
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Preview: ... š(10 2 - 6 2) = 8       h 2 + b 2 = l 2 Taking derivatives of both the sides we get     2h dh/d ...

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Preview: ... e above with respect to t, we get: 2x (dx/dt) + 2y (dy/dt) = 0 x (dx/dt) + y (dy/dt) = 0 Wh ...

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