A comet loses material when it gets close to the Sun at a rate of 100 cubic meters per minute. Assuming that the comet is spherical, how fast is the surface area of the comet shrinking when the radius is 200 meters?

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A comet loses material when it gets close to the Sun at a rate of 100 cubic meters per minute. Assuming that the comet is spherical, how fast is the surface area of the comet shrinking when the radius is 200 meters?

I see this answer was answered as 1/1600pi on the Bartleby site but my Math Professor said that the answer is 1m^2/second, not 1/1600pi.  So I got my Problem Set question wrong.  Could you please explain to me the correct answer? Thanks!
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