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Example 2

A hot air balloon rising straight up from a level field is tracked by range finder
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150m from the liftoff point. At the moment the range finder’s elevation angle is ,
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the angle is increasing at the rate of 0.14 rad/min. How fast is the balloon rising at
that moment?

33) A balloon is rising vertically above a level, straight road at a constant rate of
0.3m/s. Just when the balloon is 20m above the ground, a bicycle moving at a
constant rate of 5m/s passes under it. How fast is the distance s(t) between
the bicycle and balloon increasing 3 sec later?
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Q23) A 3.9-m ladder is leaning against a house when its base starts to slide away.
By the time, the base is 3.6 m from the house, the base is moving at the rate
of 1.5 m/sec. How fast is the top of the ladder sliding down the wall then?