area of a rectangle is fixed at 60 square meters. The base is increasing at a constant rate of 2 meters per second. How fast is the height changing when the base is 6 meters long

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The area of a rectangle is fixed at 60 square meters. The base is increasing at a constant rate of 2 meters per second. How fast is the height changing when the base is 6 meters long?

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