 | Arthur Sullivan Gale, Charles William Watkeys - Functions - 1920 - 464 pages
...the side of a barn begins to slip. When the foot of the ladder is 10 feet from the barn it is moving 2 feet per second. How fast is the top of the ladder moving? 17. The side of a square is 39.51 inches, with an error of not more than 0.01. Find the error in the... | |
 | Richard A. Silverman - Mathematics - 1989 - 318 pages
...wall. Suppose the bottom of the ladder is pulled away from the wall at a constant rate of 6 ft min. How fast is the top of the ladder moving down the wall when ta1 The bottom of the ladder is 12 feet from the wall: 1b1 The top of the ladder is 12 feet from... | |
 | Elliott Mendelson - Mathematics - 1997 - 390 pages
...wall (see Fig. 20-3). If the bottom of the ladder is slipping away from the base of the wall 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 5 feet from the base? and -• -çs RELATED RATES [CHAP. 20 Fig. 20-3... | |
 | Elliott Mendelson - Mathematics - 2007 - 409 pages
...wall (see Fig. 20-3). If the bottom of the ladder is slipping away from the base of the wall 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 5 feet from the base? Fig. 20-3 Let x be the distance of the bottom... | |
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Figure 3-7 represents the position of the ladder, with the distance from the base of the wall to the foot of the ladder labeled... 