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Textbook Solutions for Calculus: Early Transcendentals

Chapter 3 Problem 3.526

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Water is leaking out of an inverted conical tank at a rate of 10,000 cm !min at the same time that water is being pumped into the tank at a constant rate. The tank has height 6 m and the diameter at the top is 4 m. If the water level is rising at a rate of 20 cm!min when the height of the water is 2 m, find the rate at which water is being pumped into the tank.

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Title Calculus: Early Transcendentals 6 
Author James Stewart
ISBN 9780495011668

Water is leaking out of an inverted conical tank at a rate

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