A hot air balloon rising vertically is tracked by an observer located 2 miles from the lift-off point. At a certain moment the angle theta between the observer's line of sight and the horizontal is pi/4 , and it is changing at a rate of 0.125 rad/min. Let h be the height of the balloon at time t. Choose all of the following that are correct. (You can choose more than one). a. tan theta = 2h b. There is not enough information provided to write down an equation that relates the variables. c. tan theta = h/2 d. dh/dt = (sec^2*theta/2)(d*theta/dt) d. dh/dt = (2/cos^2*theta)(d*theta/dt)

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A hot air balloon rising vertically is tracked by an observer located 2 miles from the lift-off point. At a certain moment the angle theta between the observer's line of sight and the horizontal is pi/4 , and it is changing at a rate of 0.125 rad/min. Let h be the height of the balloon at time t. Choose all of the following that are correct. (You can choose more than one).

a. tan theta = 2h

b. There is not enough information provided to write down an equation that relates the variables.

c. tan theta = h/2

d. dh/dt = (sec^2*theta/2)(d*theta/dt)

d. dh/dt = (2/cos^2*theta)(d*theta/dt)

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