Carmen leaned a 13-foot ladder against a wall. If the base of the ladder is 4 feet from

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ira [324]3 years ago

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13+4=17

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This is a related rates problem from calculus using implicit differentiation. The main equation is Pythagorean's Theorem. Basically, what we are looking for is $\frac{dx}{dt}$ when y = 6 and $\frac{dy}{dt}=-2$ .

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$x^2+y^2=c^2$ where x and y are the legs and c is the hypotenuse. The length of the hypotenuse is 10, so when we find the derivative of this function with respect to time, and using implicit differentiation, we get:

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$x\frac{dx}{dt}+y\frac{dy}{dt}=0$ . Looking at that equation, it looks like we need a value for x, y, $\frac{dx}{dt}$ and $\frac{dy}{dt}$ .

Since we are looking for $\frac{dx}{dt}$ , that can be our only unknown and everything else has to have a value. So what do we know?

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