A 27 ft ladder is leaning against a vertical wall when Jack begins pulling the foot of the ladder directly away from the wall at a rate of 0.1 ft/s. Write down how many ft is the foot of the ladder from the bottom of the wall at the instant that the vertical speed of the top of the ladder equals 3 times the horizontal speed of the foot of the ladder?

A 27 ft ladder is leaning against a vertical wall when Jack begins pulling the foot of the ladder directly away from the wall at a rate of 0.1 ft/s. Write down how many ft is the foot of the ladder from the bottom of the wall at the instant that the vertical speed of the top of the ladder equals 3 times the horizontal speed of the foot of the ladder?

Mathematics For Machine Technology

8th Edition

ISBN:9781337798310

Author:Peterson, John.

Publisher:Peterson, John.

Chapter59: Areas Of Rectangles, Parallelograms, And Trapezoids

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 79A

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