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Question:
A rocket rising vertically is tracked by a radar 5 miles from the launchpad. How fast is the rocket rising when it is at an altitude of 5 miles and the distance between the rocket and the radar is increasing at 2500 miles per hour?
Answer:
Using the triangle ABC (and the fact that it is a right triangle), we see that:
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