Question

A fish is being reeled in at a rate of 2 meters per second (that is, the fishing line is being shortened by 2m/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?

Answer 1

what u think

Answer 2

I dont know how to start it

Answer 3

I'm bad at related rates :/

Answer 4

start with a picture and see if you can determine a relationship between what you want to find and what is known

Answer 5

thats my problem...the picture haha