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Water is draining from a small cylindrical tank into a larger one below it. The small cylindrical tank has a radius of 4 feet
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maeil
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In a community of 800 people the rate at which a rumor spreads is jointly proportional to the number of people who have heard
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Gems
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A circular oil slick of uniform thickness is caused by a spill of 1 cubic meter of oil. The thickness of the oil is decreasing
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Mary
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A street light is mounted at the top of a 15-ft-tall pole. A man 6 ft tall walks away from the pole with a speed of 7 ft/s along
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AH
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A scuba diver dove from the surface of the ocean to an elevation of −89
9 10 feet at a rate of −24 feet per minute. After
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Anonymous
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Consider the graph of the parabola f(x)equals=x squaredx2. For xgreater than>0 and hgreater than>0, the secant line
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Ashley
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The number of crimes that occurred in a certain city per 1000 people had decreased from 45.3 in 1920 to 44.6 in 1970. Find the
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Pam
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A mountain goat is climbing to the top of a large cliff. The cliff is 50 feet higher than its starting point. If it takes the
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A mountain goat is climbing to the top of a large cliff. The cliff is 50 feet higher than its starting point. If it takes the
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malachi🖤
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QUESTION 1
1. A squirrel has stored its acorns in a hole that is 45 feet from the ground in a tall tree. The squirrel starts on a
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malachi🖤
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a SECURITY CAMERA is centered 50 feet above a 100-foot hallway. it is easiest to design the camera with a constant angular rate
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aye bruh
1. A squirrel has stored its acorns in a hole that is 45 feet from the ground in a tall tree. The squirrel starts on a
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he scuba diver was at a depth below the surface when she saw something interesting about 10 meters lower. She made the descent
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What is the average rate of change for the function f(x) = x^3 − 6x^2 + 4x +7 over the interval 0≤x≤5?
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scottpilgrim
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i need the rate of change for: growing from 1.4 to 1.6m in one year
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taylor
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Two people start from the same point. One walks east at 1 mi/h and the other walks northeast at 2 mi/h. How fast is the distance
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Michael
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Two sides of a triangle have lengths 13 m and 17 m. The angle between them is increasing at a rate of 5 degrees/ min. How fast
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Jacke
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A right triangle has base x meters and height h meters, where h is constant and x changes with respect to time t, measured in
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Joey
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Two buses are driving along parallel freeways that are 5mi apart, one heading east and the other heading west. Assuming that
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Maya
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A man standing 9 feet from the base of a lamppost casts a shadow 6 feet long. If the man is 6
feet tall and walks away from the
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Mike Nguyen
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A balloon rises vertically at a rate of 8 feet/sec. A bird flies 40 feet above ground toward the balloon’s path at 20 feet per
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Martin
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1. The radius of a sphere is expanding at a rate of 14 in/min.
a) Determine the rate at which the volume is changing when the
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Anonymous
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A woman 5.5 ft tall walks at a rate of 6 ft/sec toward a streetlight that is 22 ft above the ground. At what rate is the length
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Anonymous
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Two people start from the same point. One walks east at 5 mi/h and the other walks northeast at 7 mi/h. How fast is the distance
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Nick
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A hot-air balloon is 110 ft above the ground when a motorcycle (traveling in a straight line on a horizontal road)
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Lily
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Use the following graph to estimate the rate of change of the function at x=0.6 using the points(0,0) and (1,-0.5)
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David
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A hot-air balloon is 120 ft above the ground when a motorcycle (traveling in a straight line on a horizontal road)
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Britt
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Luke and Leia are trapped inside a trash compactor on the Death Star. The side walls are moving apart at 0.1 m/sec, but the end
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Amanda E.
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A ladder 10 ft long rests against a vertical wall. let θ be the angle between the top of the ladder and the wall and let x be
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Sasha
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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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A woman 5 ft tall walks at the rate of 5.5 ft/sec away from a streetlight that is 16 ft above the ground. At what rate is the
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Anonymous
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1.For f(x)=sin^2(x) and g(x)=0.5x^2 on the interval
[-pi/2,pi/2], the instantaneous rate of change of f is greater than the
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Jacke
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Hello! Can u help me with this please. I'm having a hard time solving this one but I don't know if I make it right. Please help
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Princess Sheen
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The function y = 125 + 75x can be used to determine the cost in dollars for a painting job of x hours. What is the rate of
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carmella
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Let f be defined as follows.
y = f(x) = x^2 - 4 x (a) Find the average rate of change of y with respect to x in the following
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Anonymous
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Corn is poured through a chute at the rate of 10ft^3 / min and falls in a conical pile whose bottom radius is always half the
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Linda
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The edge of a cube is increasing at a rate of 2 inches per minute. At the instant when the volume is 27 cubic inches, how fast
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Cassy
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A clock has hands 1 and 1 3
5 inches long respectively. At what rate are the ends of the hands approaching each other when the
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angelica
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A man 1.69 meters tall is walking towards a building at the rate of 1.5 meters per second. If there is a light on the ground 15
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Harra
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A plane flies horizontally at an altitude of 5 km and passes directly over a tracking telescope on the ground. When the angle of
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kirsten
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a particle is moving along the graph of y=x^(1/3) when x=8 the y component of its position is increasing at the rate of 1
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john
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"At 9am ship A is 50 km east of ship B. Ship A is sailing north at 40km/h and ship B is sailing south at 30km/h. How fast is the
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Stuck
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A bicyclist is riding on a path modeled by the function
f(x) = 0.04(8x − x2), where x and f(x) are measured in miles. Find the
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Tilla
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Let F(s)=5s2+5s+4 . Find a value of d greater than 0 such that the average rate of change of F(s) from 0 to d equals the
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Melissa
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3.The snow starts at a depth of 10 inches and melts to 2 inches over the span of 4 hours. Determine the rate of change over the
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Fez
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The height of a triangle is increasing at a rate of 1 cm/min while the area of the triangle is increasing at a rate of 2 square
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Amy
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for f(x)=-x^2 +1, which value is the largest magnitude?
a) average rate of change from x=-1 to x=1 b) instanteneuous rate of
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g
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A street light is at the top of a 19 foot tall pole. A 6 foot tall woman walks away from the pole with a speed of 7 ft/sec along
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Joe
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A scuba diver was at a depth of 15 meters below the surface when she saw something interesting about 10 meters lower. She made
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The length ℓ, width w, and height h of a box change with time. At a certain instant the dimensions are ℓ = 7 m and w = h = 2
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