A child flies a kite at a height of 40 feet, the wind carrying the kite horizontally away from the child at a rate of 25 feet/second. How fast is the length of the string changing when the string that the child let out is 50 feet long?
A child flies a kite at a height of 40 feet, the wind carrying the kite horizontally away from the child at a rate of 25 feet/second. How fast is the length of the string changing when the string that the child let out is 50 feet long?
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