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A and B are walking on straight streets that meet at right angles.A approaches the intersection at 2 m/sec ; B moves away from theintersection 1 m/sec. At what rate is the angle theta changing whenA is 10 m from the intersection and B is 20 m form theintersection? Express your answer in degrees per second in thenearest degree.

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what i did is

OpenStudy (ksaimouli):

\[\theta=\tan^{-1} (A/B)\]

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\[d \theta/dt=\left(\begin{matrix} 1\\(A/B)^2+1\end{matrix}\right)dA/dt dB/dt\]

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