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A man 160 cm tall, walks away from a source of light situated at the top of a pole 6 m high, at the rate of 1.1 m/sec. How fast is the length of his shadow increasing when he is 1 m away from the pole?

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A man 180 cm tall walks at a rate of 2 m/sec. away, from a source of light that is 9 m above the ground. How fast is the length of his shadow increasing when he is 3 m away from the base of light?
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A ladder 13 m long leans against a wall. The foot of the ladder is pulled along the ground away from the wall, at the rate of 1.5 m/sec. How fast is the angle θ between the ladder and the ground is changing when the foot of the ladder is 12 m away from the wall.
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A particle moves along the curve y=x2+2x. At what point(s) on the curve are the x and y coordinates of the particle changing at the same rate?
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If y=7x-x3 and x increases at the rate of 4 units per second, how fast is the slope of the curve changing when x=2?
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A particle moves along the curve y=x3. Find the points on the curve at which the y-coordinate changes three times more rapidly than the x-coordinate.
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Find an angle θ which increases twice as fast as its cosine.
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Find an angle θ whose rate of increase is twice the rate of decrease of its cosine.
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The top of a ladder 6 metres long is resting against a vertical wall on a level pavement, when the ladder begins to slide outwards. At the moment when the foot of the ladder is 4 metres from the wall, it is sliding away from the wall at the rate of 0.5 m/sec. How fast is the top-sliding downwards at this instance?

How far is the foot from the wall when it and the top are moving at the same rate?