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Homework Statement
A small boat is being pulled toward a dock that is 10 feet above the water. The rope is being pulled in at a rate of 1.5 feet per second. Find the rate at which the angle the rope makes wit hthe horizontal is changing when 20 feet of rope is out.
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The Attempt at a Solution
Sadly it has been awhile since I have done anything like this. This section in our book is on inverse trig functions, and this is the only homework question like this. I have never had trig, so finding the change of the angle I assume it is asking in radians is something I do not know how to solve.
if the dock is ten feet above the water, 20 feet of rope is out, that makes this a 1,2 , sqrt(3) triangle. It means it already has a degree of 30, but this is about as far as I know how too work.