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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A 25 foot long ladder is leaning against the wall of a house. The base of the ladder is being pulled away from the wall at a rate of 2 ft per second. Find the rate at which the angle between the ladder and the house is changing when the base of the ladder is 7ft from the wall.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Also I have the answer so I'm really looking for an explanation

OpenStudy (anonymous):

good ol related rates

OpenStudy (anonymous):

presumably it involve implicit differentiation with tangent

OpenStudy (anonymous):

scratch that, cosine

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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myininaya (myininaya):

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