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Marine biologists have determined that when a shark detects the presence of blood in the water, it will swim in the direction in which the concentration of the blood increases most rapidly. Based on certain tests, the concentration of blood (in parts per million) at a point
where x and y are measured in meters in a rectangular
(a) Identify the level curves of the concentration function and sketch several members of this family together with a path that a shark will follow to the source.
(b) Suppose a shark is at the point
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- College Algebra (MindTap Course List)AlgebraISBN:9781305652231Author:R. David Gustafson, Jeff HughesPublisher:Cengage Learning