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braddy

Joined Dec 29, 2004
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Hey,
I need some suggestions to approach the problem:

A lifeguard standing on a tower throws a buoy to a swinner 5m from the tower. The lifeguard, positioned 3 m above the water, pulls in the rope at a speed of 1m/s.
How fast is the swinner coming to the shore when he is at 4m from the water edge?

thanks
 

wireless

Joined Sep 10, 2005
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Originally posted by braddy@Sep 9 2005, 11:48 PM
Hey,
I need some suggestions to approach the problem:

A lifeguard standing on a tower throws a buoy to a swinner 5m from the tower. The lifeguard, positioned 3 m above the water, pulls in the rope at a speed of 1m/s.
How fast is the swinner coming to the shore when he is at 4m from the water edge?

thanks
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First, draw a diagram. It should be a triangle with 3m on one side (the height of the life guard), 4m on another side (distance the swimmner is from the edge) and
with a little geometry the hypotenuse is 5m. These lengths will give you the angles of the triangle. From here, all you need to find is the COSINE of the angle.
 
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