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Fish The length of the monkeyface prickleback, a West Coast game fish, can be approximated by
And the weight by
Where
a. Find the approximate length of a 5-year-old mokeyface.
b. Find how fast the length of a 5-year-old monkeyface is growing.
c. Find the approximate weight of a 5-year-old monkeyface. (Hint: Use your answer from part a.)
d. Find the rate of change of the weight with respect to length for a 5-year-old monkeyface.
e. Use the chain rule and your answers to part b and d, find how fast the weight of a 5-year-old monkeyface is growing.
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