A rope is attached to the bow of a sailboat coming in for the evening. Assume that the rope is drawn in over a pulley 5 feet higher than the bow at the rate of 2 feet per second, as shown in Figure 3.42. How fast is the boat docking when the length of rope from bow to pulley is 13 feet? Pulley Rope

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