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Related rates calculus problem, can you help me please?
Hello I am having great difficulty with the following problem. If someone could solve it and show step by step soultion that would be easy for me to understand : ) I would be very appreciatve. Thank you.
A plane at an altitude of 1 mile is flying horizontally at 500miles/hr. It passes a radar station on the ground. What is the rate of change of the distance of the plane from the radar station when the plane has moved 2 miles?
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If you draw it as a right triangle, one leg is 1, one is 500t, and the hypotenuse is x, the distance between them. So you want dx/dt
x = sqrt (1^2 + (500t)^2) = (1 + 250000t^2)^1/2
Let u = 1 + 250000t^2, du/dt = 500000t
x = u^1/2, dx/du = 1/2 u ^ -1/2 or 1/2 times 1/sqrt u
dx/dt = dx/du times du/dt
= 1/2 times 1/ sqrt (1 +250000t^2 ) times 500000t
2 miles only takes 2/500 hours so plug 2/500 (0.004) in for t
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