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A fish is being reeled in at a rate of 2 meters per second (that is, the fishing line is being shortened by 2 m/s) by a fisherman on a pier in the Atlantic Ocean. If the fisherman is sitting on a pier 30 meters above the water, at what rate is the horizontal distance between the fish and the pier changing when the line is 50 meters long?

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