Solved: Tractrix A person walking along a dock drags a boat by a 10-meter rope. The boat

Chapter 3, Problem 118

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Tractrix A person walking along a dock drags a boat by a 10-meter rope. The boat travels along a path known as a tractrix (see figure). The equation of this path is (a) Use a graphing utility to graph the function. (b) What is the slope of the path when and (c) What does the slope of the path approach as x10?

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