A hot air balloon rising vertically is tracked by an observer located 4 km from the lift-off

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A hot air balloon rising vertically is tracked by an observer located 4 km from the lift-off point. At a certain moment, the angle between the observer’s line of sight and the horizontal is π/5, and it is changing at a rate of 0.2 rad/min. How fast is the balloon rising at this moment?

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Calculus

ISBN: 9781319055844

4th Edition

Authors: Jon Rogawski, Colin Adams, Robert Franzosa

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