Homework Help: calculus

Posted by Diana on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 6:24pm.

A 20 ft ladder is leaning against the side of a house. If the bottom of the ladder is moving away from the house at the rate of 2 feet per second, how fast is the top of the ladder moving down the wall when the bottom of the ladder is 12 feet from the house

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