?Snow began to fall during the morning of February 2 and continued steadily into the
Chapter 16, Problem 8(choose chapter or problem)
Snow began to fall during the morning of February 2 and continued steadily into the afternoon. At noon a snowplow began removing snow from a road at a constant rate. The plow traveled from noon to
but only
from
to
. When did the snow begin to fall? [Hints: To get started, let
be the time measured in hours after noon; let
be the distance traveled by the plow at time
; then the speed of the plow is
. Let
be the number of hours before noon that it began to snow. Find an expression for the height of the snow at time
. Then use the given information that the rate of removal
(in
) is constant.]
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