A spherical snowball is melting in such a way that its radius is decreasing at a rate of 0.2 cm/min. At what rate is the volume of the snowball decreasing when the radius is 13 cm? (Note the answer is a positive number)

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A spherical snowball is melting in such a way that its radius is decreasing at a rate of 0.2 cm/min. At what rate is the volume of the snowball decreasing when the radius is 13 cm? (Note the answer is a positive number).

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