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<em>Correction to your question text: diameter, not radius.</em>
The area of a circle is given by:

The radius is half of the diameter.

Substitute and solve.

Volume of water in the tank:

Differentiate both sides with respect to time <em>t</em> :

<em>V</em> changes at a rate of 2000 cc/min (cubic cm per minute); use this to solve for d<em>h</em>/d<em>t</em> :


(The question asks how the height changes at the exact moment the height is 50 cm, but this info is a red herring because the rate of change is constant.)