A rectangular shaped region is changing with time and increasing in the x direction at the rate of 2 units/sec and decreasing in the y direction at the rate of 0.5 units/sec. How does the diagonal change when x=4 and y=6? Is the diagonal increasing or decreasing at this moment?

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A rectangular shaped region is changing with time and increasing in the x direction at the rate of 2 units/sec and decreasing in the y direction at the rate of 0.5 units/sec. How does the diagonal change when x=4 and y=6? Is the diagonal increasing or decreasing at this moment? 

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