Homework Help: calculus

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7:57pm.

An ice cube is melting, and the lengths of its sides are decreasing at a rate of 0.4 millimeters per minute.
At what rate is the volume of the ice cube decreasing when the lengths of the sides of the cube are equal to 15 millimeters?
Give your answer correct to the nearest cubic millimeter per minute.

calculus - Damon, Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8:04pm
v = s^3
dv/dt = 3 s^2 ds/dt
here ds/dt = -0.4 and s = 15
calculus - 9ber, Monday, October 1, 2012 at 12:37pm
An ice cube is melting at a rate of 0.2 cm/min. side length of cube is 3 cm. What is rate of change of volume after 5 mins

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